After nearly a decade of almost year-over-year increases in overdose deaths, the tide may finally be turning in Philadelphia.

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

Naloxone is a fantastic tool in reducing opioid deaths, but gentler versions would be helpful for fighting overdose ...

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.

a drug that reverses opioid withdrawal symptoms without providing the same type of "high" to the user or the risk of another overdose. Paramedics in New York currently are prohibited by law ...

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 ...

Until recently, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) didn’t even ask non-abusing patients on chronic opioids about symptoms of opioid use disorder. Asking made a difference.

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

The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and ...

Buprenorphine alleviates opioid withdrawal symptoms like vomiting and anxiety, as well as cravings, to reduce the chances of an overdose. Naloxone:Hundreds of civilians used Narcan to save ...