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

An historic settlement reached between drugmakers and some states offers those states which were part of the deal a valuable ...

Nearly 22,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized at US borders during the 2024 fiscal year, according to data from the US Customs ...

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

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.

Stefan Kertesz, a physician and addiction expert, says overaggressive cutbacks can harm some chronic pain patients.

Touch a hot stove, for example, and the nerve will send signals to the spinal cord and up to the brain that you’re ...

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 roots of human behavior.

Those opioids were later revealed to be highly addictive ... are inaccessible to patients despite their effectiveness. As an example, he said that chiropractic care is the most cost-effective ...