A new vaccine being tested could offer another solution to help opioid users with an addiction. “All my life, I've been working on drugs of abuse like substance abuse disorder, etcetera,” Marco ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New medical treatments for drug addiction are finally in the pipeline. (J Studios/Getty Images) Articles in this report were ...

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

With the rise of obesity drugs a pair of Penn State researchers set out to answer a question: could drugs aimed at weight loss help battle opioid addiction? Researchers Dr. Patricia Grigson and Dr.

Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

CREOKS Health Services in McAlester gave its first quartly update on the city’s opioid abatement program to council this ...

Federal Medicaid cuts from The Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed in 202,5 will begin taking effect this year. The cuts could ...

Lucinda Grande is a physician and partner at Pioneer Family Practice in Lacey, Washington. Imagine a patient named Rosa tells you she wakes up night after night in a drenching sweat after having very ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

For Lacy Sisk, 40, the lowest moment in her opioid addiction was watching her family pack their belongings because she could no longer afford to pay the rent. All of her money had gone to pain pills ...