The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA or Agency) final rule on Additional Conditions for Nonprescription Use (ACNU) paves the way for some ...

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

If you have recently visited your doctor for pain management and were surprised when they did not prescribe opioids, you are ...

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

I am scheduled for cataract surgery. The procedure has been approved by my cardiologist and my primary doctor. I am pretty healthy, feel like I’m doing ...

An estimated 8.9 million Americans aged 12 and older misused opioids in 2023. Opioids are drugs formulated to replicate the pain-reducing properties of opium. Prescription painkillers like ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - A new Minnesota law that caps the price of some life-saving prescription drugs goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2025, which could help some families save thousands of dollars ...

The effects of the opioid epidemic has gone further than ... In fact, in 30 of the 89 samples, at least one of the following prescription medications was present: fentanyl (which has around ...

Nearly 50,000 people in Canada died of an apparent opioid overdose from January 2016 to June 2024, with fentanyl playing an increasingly prominent role in fatalities, the national health agency ...

The rampant use of crack cocaine in the 1980s and 1990s and the prescription pill crisis that began in the 1990s took a huge toll in Chicago, too. The number of opioid deaths peaked during the ...

The Justice Department has unsealed a civil complaint alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled unlawful prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act ...

The study required at least three clinicians per intervention site to prescribe either full or partial opioid antagonists. Treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) historically has been viewed by ...