More New Yorkers received scripts for buprenorphine, a med used to treat opioid addiction, amid fight against record-high ...

After years of struggling with alcohol dependence, Shana found a combination of treatment and counseling that works for her.

Deyonta Green was found unconscious, face down in his cell, after receiving no treatment during a weeklong opioid withdrawal, ...

Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...

NSDUH only queried opioid misusers about opioid use disorder symptoms. After they changed the protocol and asked all ...

The New York State health department is underscoring the importance of addiction medication in ending the opioid crisis.

Reversing opioid overdoses in rats using a drug that does not enter the brain prevents the sudden and severe withdrawal symptoms associated with therapeutics that target the central nervous system.

Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway has introduced a bill requiring medical first responders to carry buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid withdrawal symptoms. Conway explains that ...

Deyonta Green was 25 years old when he was booked into the Anoka County Jail in 2022. A few days later, he was hospitalized, ...

But once the patient regains consciousness, the person immediately starts the debilitating symptoms of opioid withdrawal — a problem paramedics aren't legally able to address on the scene ...