As a chronic pain patient, I have experienced the anguish and degradation of being denied pain medication firsthand,” a STAT reader writes.

Among the FDA’s pending decisions for this quarter are Vertex’s non-opioid pain drug and Sanofi’s RNA interference therapy ...

A smartphone app can help patients with opioid use disorder reduce their days of opioid use and stay in treatment long-er, according to new research.

Albany County is taking a significant step forward in the fight against the opioid epidemic. $1.5 million from the historic ...

Opioid misuse and specifically opioid use disorder (OUD), continues to represent a significant U.S. public health threat, with more than 6 million Americans aged 12 and older meeting the criteria for ...

Trend tracking and harm reduction policies may help alleviate the high rate of overdose deaths in the US, according to one ...

Legislation would fund psilocybin research and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for veterans dealing with PTSD and other maladies.

It was hypothesized that patients who have inherited polymorphisms in CYP2D6 that make them poor or intermediate metabolizers of opioid medications would have higher steady-state concentrations of ...

The Waterloo Board of Education approved several policies addressing voter registration, therapy animals, opioid overdose response, and support for married or pregnant students during its December ...

Our senior population requires a robust, compassionate healthcare system that truly protects their well-being.

[2] Drug therapy aimed attreating the underlying cause ... administration may yield minimal benefit. Morphine and other opioids given in small doses orally, sublin-gually, by injection, or by ...