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

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.

Naloxone displaces the opioid from the brain receptors, which stops the effects of the overdose for sixty to ninety minutes. This allows time for a hospital to intervene.

The mother of the toddler told authorities that the child had been holding a spoon she used for fentanyl. She now faces ...

Opioid-related neurocognitive symptoms among patients on long-term opioid therapy were most prevalent during the course of therapy.

The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States, long believed to be driven by access to legal and illegal opioids, is most closely tied to an equally dramatic decline in ...

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

Formal charges have been filed against the parents of a 3-year-old who are accused of neglect after their child’s opioid ...

A University of the Pacific team has developed a single-dose injection to counter the effects of fentanyl and other opioid ...