Pregnant women treated with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) experienced significantly better outcomes for ...

Naloxone is one of them. This safe, easy-to-use medication can reverse an opioid overdose in minutes. It’s legal to carry and ...

Prescriptions to prevent cravings and withdrawal symptoms see growth, but remain a fraction of opioid prescription counts.

A paper published this month in the journal Current Addiction Reports discusses the merits of intranasal medications that can ...

Since Robert's death, Debbie went to the hospital, the pharmacy, and the Texas Pharmacy Board to try to get a warning label ...

Kansas is receiving over $340-million from settlements with pharmaceutical companies in response to the opioid epidemic. So ...

Solano County recorded 59 fatal overdoses directly tied to fentanyl — accounting for 87% of all opioid-related deaths in the ...

There are many available harm reduction strategies, including needle exchange and clean IV using kits, naloxone sprays to reverse an overdose, and fentanyl test strips to detect contaminated samples ...

Wichita and Sedgwick County have a combined $5 million to spend on overdose prevention. Another $10 million is expected in ...

Between 2019 and 2023, overdose deaths increased by 61% among Black people and by 17% among Hispanic people in the city.

Shore Medical Center has received $20,000 from the 2024 Kyle Evans Memorial Golf Outing. The outing will return to Harbor ...

From 2019 to 2021, opioid prescribing by US physicians in EDs declined, but it increased among PAs and nurses.