Despite an increase in the use of medication for opioid use disorder in older adults from 2017 to 2022, disparities persist; ...

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For patients with psychiatric conditions from addiction to mood disorders such as depression, disrupted sleep can often ...

When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...

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

The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

A binding rule published in the final days of the Biden administration changes the way providers prescribe medications for ...

Veterans who were simultaneously prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faced an ...

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The opioid crisis in 2023, amid the Biden administration, cost the U.S. $2.7 trillion, according to a Council of Economic ...

Santa Rosa County will spend opioid settlement dollars to help people jailed for drug crimes continue treatment and recovery ...