Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors ...

Opioid agonist/antagonist has a big impact in phase IIb trial ...

Few patients with opioid toxicity receive opioid agonist therapy (OAT), data suggest. In a retrospective study that examined about 21,000 hospital visits related to opioid use disorder (OUD) in ...

In the week following any hospital visit for an overdose, only 1 in 18 people with opioid use disorder begin a treatment known to be highly effective in reducing illness and deaths, according to new ...

Scientists are racing to redesign how powerful painkillers work, aiming to keep the relief that opioids provide while stripping away the worst dangers of addiction and overdose. Instead of tweaking ...

Researchers at Geneva University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, found that the use of alpha-2 agonists with opioids in surgical patients decreased post-surgical opioid use by 25 to 30 percent. The ...

Pharmacology, prescribing requirements, and patient preference are crucial factors in choosing opioid agonist treatments.

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling in the tissue around oral cancers both increases nerve sensitivity and ...