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The Town of Bedford and the Great Meadows Public Health Collaborative are inviting individuals with lived substance abuse ...

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

After reading a recent Sun-Times investigation on opioid deaths among a generation of Black men, WBEZ editor Alden Loury ponders the role of racism and segregation in those deaths.

For the first time in two decades, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new class of medication that provides an alternative to addictive opioids for patients looking to manage ...

MADISON, Wis. (WIFR) - A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health looks to help doctors prescribe opioids safely and effectively. The study ...

Prescriptions have fallen sharply in the last decade and the current wave of the opioid epidemic is mainly due to illicit fentanyl, not pharmaceutical medicines. Opioids reduce pain by binding to ...

Prescriptions have fallen sharply in the last decade and the current wave of the opioid epidemic is mainly due to illicit fentanyl, not pharmaceutical medicines. Opioids reduce pain by binding to ...