THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- People of color now have less access to prescription opioid painkillers than ...

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

Patients seeking an opioid-free way to handle pain experienced in the short-term will soon have a new option.

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...

Public health experts have concerns about the opioid reversal agent Opvee. But the company that makes it, Indivior, has found ...

If you had a machine that was manufacturing bullets in the commonwealth and you sold them, you couldn’t do that legally," a ...

The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and represent the first new class of pain medications in 20 years—and the first non ...

You don’t have to have a run in with the law to get help. The province has introduced on-demand access to opioid agonist ...

President Trump made improving Americans’ health a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign. Perhaps no issue has devastated our public health more over the last 25 years than the opioid crisis.

Many opioids remain in the body longer ... a vast majority of [primary] providers at least consider it.” PCHS, for example, went from about 5 to 30 practitioners prescribing the medication ...