U.S. officials have approved a new type of pain drug designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioids.

Drug experts Drs. Volkow and McLellan set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. Find out how we're doing now.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NBC ...

Yale researchers found that cannabis-derived compounds CBD, CBG and CBN reduce pain signaling by inhibiting the Nav1.8 ...

A large proportion of babies born very early need intensive care, which can be painful. But the healthcare system fails to ...

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), in partnership with the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), pursued significant and, in some ...

Why the U.S. economy is still strong despite the Fed’s 2022-’23 rate hikes Effect of rate hikes ‘has been much weaker than the economics textbook would have predicted,’ according to ...

For about three years, I’ve been running a pilot program at the jail to combat the opioid epidemic, which has really ravaged rural communities, especially in places like Maine. As an addiction ...