When you have a mild headache or muscle ache, an over-the-counter pain reliever is usually enough to make you feel better. But if your pain is more severe, your doctor might recommend something ...

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Treatment for addiction is available. For help, call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP), or visit findtreatment.gov. Drugs were Katie Mack’s connection to the world.

Opioid antagonists are medications people can take to treat opioid use disorder. They help by reducing withdrawal symptoms, addressing cravings, and managing overdoses. Doctors prescribe opioid ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Crested Butte could have bought nine doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone with the amount of money the town has received so far from Colorado’s ...

DETROIT – Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is a critical tool to fight overdoses. It rapidly reverses the potentially fatal effects of opioids in the body, but how does it do that? In over 30 years as ...

Corey Newman started taking Percocet bought off the streets shortly after he was shot in the leg in 2019. It helped with the pain, he said, but before long he was hooked and “wasn’t functioning right.

Lexington’s Opioid Abatement Commission wants to hear the public’s stories. Liz O. Baylen Miami Herald File The Lexington Opioid Commission has been meeting since October, 2023. Chairwoman Stephanie M ...

Whether prescription or recreational, opioid use can increase your chances of complications before, during, and after childbirth. These complications often link to frequent opioid use and not one-off ...

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first new kind of painkiller in 20 years. It's considered an alternative to opioids. But it's expensive, and not everyone has access to ...

What empty well do opioids fill in someone suffering from addiction? “The reason you get addicted is because something is missing for you. And... Opioids can 'feel like love.' Here's how that helps ...