A new opioid-free pain medication was approved by the FDA on Thursday, marking a non-addictive alternative for patients.

NSDUH only queried opioid misusers about opioid use disorder symptoms. After they changed the protocol and asked all ...

Decreased odds of past-year opioid misuse were seen among individuals in states with medical cannabis legalization vs those ...

Pennsylvania looks likely to receive another big infusion of money from another court settlement over responsibility for the nation’s ongoing opioid epidemic. If the settlement is finalized, it will ...

Opioid abuse tells a tragic American story since avoidable deaths began in the 1990s. Nearly 700,000 people lost their lives ...

An online-based mindfulness treatment program significantly reduced opioid craving among participants with opioid use ...

In their 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article on opioids, Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., who served as deputy ...

The FDA has approved Journavx, a pain medication, offering a safer alternative to opioids. Learn about its benefits and side ...

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa announced on Friday the introduction of a bill aimed at preventing opioid ...

Opioid abuse tells a tragic American story since avoidable deaths began in the 1990s. Nearly 700,000 people lost their lives to overdoses of OxyContin and offshoots of the highly addictive painkiller.