Researchers at University of the Pacific in Stockton have developed a long-acting opioid overdose-reversal drug-delivery system that could save lives.

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Public health experts have concerns about the opioid reversal agent Opvee. But the company that makes it, Indivior, has found ...

Patients seeking an opioid-free way to handle pain experienced in the short-term will soon have a new option.

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller, Journaxv, or suzetrigine, drugmaker Vertex ...

People of color now have less access to prescription opioid painkillers than white patients, an unintended consequence of ...

If you had a machine that was manufacturing bullets in the commonwealth and you sold them, you couldn’t do that legally," a ...

Heroes, Warriors, and Martyrs—are biologically imprinted in our DNA, and how science, psychology, and epigenetics reveal the ...

You don’t have to have a run in with the law to get help. The province has introduced on-demand access to opioid agonist ...

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

Many opioids remain in the body longer ... a vast majority of [primary] providers at least consider it.” PCHS, for example, went from about 5 to 30 practitioners prescribing the medication ...