Postoperative opioid use significantly decreased with the use of a standardized pain protocol among patients who underwent minimally invasive surgery.

Vinnidhy Dave, D.O., hospice specialist and director of palliative medicine at Englewood Health Physician Network, and Lauren Savage, director of population health at Englewood Hospital, discuss what ...

In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, near a storefront advertising "free" cellphones, J.R. sat in an empty back stairwell and showed a ...

Women who used the Continuous Precision Medicine mobile application had a lower likelihood of misusing prescription opioids after cesarean section vs. nonusers, researchers reported in BMC Pregnancy ...

Many users later turned to heroin and now illicit ... saying that only a fraction of patients who receive a short-term prescription for opioids after simple surgeries get addicted.

El Chapo. And, God help us, Richard Nixon. When Purdue and friends were blanketing the land with prescription opioids and heroin use plummeted, the then-head of the Sinaloa cartel ripped up pot ...

QUESTION: Are there alternatives to Oxycodone that people can ask for post-surgery? Or should they stay away from the stronger medications altogether?

In the 12 months after a nonfatal overdose, few Medicare beneficiaries receive medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) or fill a naloxone prescription.

Or at least J.R. hoped it was cocaine, pure cocaine -- uncontaminated by fentanyl, a potent opioid ... prescription painkillers in the early 2000s. The second wave involved an increase in heroin ...