The opioid epidemic costs the U.S. over $1.5 trillion annually, overloading hospitals, public health systems, and law ...

Over a decade spent treating and researching substance use disorders taught one researcher that the overdose epidemic is a ...

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Community collaboration, harm reduction models and policy changes can ease the burden on EMS workers and improve patient ...

He served on the Data Analysis and Sharing Subcommittee of the Philadelphia Mayor’s Task Force to Combat the Opiate Epidemic from ... more powerful synthetic opioids that are easier to produce ...

Wall Street views Journavx as a billion-dollar product. Journavx has a real chance to “bend the curve on the opioid epidemic,” said Stuart Arbuckle, who, as Vertex’s chief operating officer ...

Opioid abuse and rural homelessness create a spiral for some rural residents, a new study has found. For the study, ...

According to the CDC, the first wave of the opioid overdose epidemic started in the 1990s with the abuse of prescription opioids. Purdue Pharma and its owners, members of the Sackler family ...

While partly off the radar for many, the opioid crisis is still unfolding and continuing every day. There are concerns the battle is not being won because one drug or substance just replaces ...