People of color now have less access to prescription opioid painkillers than white patients, an unintended consequence of ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller, Journaxv, or suzetrigine, drugmaker Vertex ...

Researchers at University of the Pacific in Stockton have developed a long-acting opioid overdose-reversal drug-delivery system that could save lives.

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

For example, opioid prescriptions for cancer or hospice patients have declined at a comparable rate to that of the general population, even though those patients have a legitimate need for the ...

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

The amount of women who were diagnosed with a substance use disorder in Ohio when they delivered their babies has increased over the years, but are the resources in our communities available to help ...

Antidotes are critical in toxicology, offering therapeutic solutions to poisoning by neutralizing toxins and enhancing the ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. gained US approval for the first new type of painkiller in more than two decades, paving the way for a safer alternative to addictive opioids that have been linked to ...

Pa rents tell their children to be careful, that the world can be a bad place. But those are warnings about bad people. No ...

Today, seatbelt use in the United States tops 90 percent. In 1983, only 14 percent of Americans wore seatbelts, due in part ...

To justify his executive order imposing stiff tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, U.S. President Donald Trump ...