Laws requiring physicians to check a patient’s drug history in state databases help lower opioid abuse incidence, according to a paper in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by Ithaca, ...

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

People who abuse opioids are more likely to be hospitalized for sepsis and die, even if they are young and otherwise healthy, according to new research. Researchers analyzed 6.7 million U.S. hospital ...

WASHINGTON – The White House said Tuesday it will include an additional $1.1 billion in its fiscal 2017 budget request to help states battle prescription opioid abuse and heroin use. While ...

How does your doctor actually prescribe opioid medication? Why is it hard to get a refill? What are the best solutions to ...

Could sex hormones explain the difference in opioid use and misuse between genders? Since 1999, the American opioid epidemic has killed more than half a million people, and according to the National ...

"This is your brain on drugs," the old anti-drug admonition says, and now a new study has found there's something to that chestnut. Opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in ...

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey -- The nation's addiction to opioids is part of a crisis plaguing communities across America and particularly the Tri-State Area. According to the National Institute on Drug ...

On a global level, it is estimated that 20% of adults suffer from pain, and 10% are being newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year (Goldberg and McGee 2011). The presence of chronic pain afflicts ...

The 2025 Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series helped New Jersey prescribers deepen their understanding of safer, non-opioid pain management options, advancing efforts to reduce opioid misuse ...

Are Abuse-Deterrent Drugs Less Addictive? Medscape: In a national survey [1] of internists, family physicians, and general practitioners, nearly one half stated that they believed abuse-deterrent ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on Thursday to help drug companies develop generic versions of approved opioids with abuse-deterrent formulations while ensuring that ...