Around two-thirds of people relapse within 30 days after being discharged from residential treatment. An app could help them ...

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. Thankfully, ...

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with NaphCare, Inc., has announced the expansion of its ...

Reversing opioid overdoses in rats using a drug that does not enter the brain prevents the sudden and severe withdrawal symptoms associated with therapeutics that target the central nervous system.

A study conducted at Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie anorexia.

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 ...

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

Experts say administering Narcan can increase someone’s survival rate in a matter of minutes if they have opioids in their system and it’s impacting survival rates nationwide. In 2023 ...

Many communities in the state still lack accessible treatment options. For example, while 93% of the opioid treatment programs in Kentucky take Medicaid patients, only 44% of office-based opioid ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The state’s top doctor pushed Premier Chris Minns to consider drug responses beyond pill-testing after young people in Sydney ...

The third wave began when powerful synthetic opioids such as fentanyl started appearing in the ... such as cocaine and fentanyl, for example — is accidental versus intentional. It can vary for ...

Syed also allegedly prescribed a synthetic opioid to treat substance use disorders at the same time the patient was receiving other opioids from other providers. It's also alleged the doctor ...