opioids

Opioids like morphine, oxycodone, and methadone that are used as painkillers may actually cause an increase in pain over time, suggests a study released on May 30.

As New Hampshire considers mandatory drug prevention education in all grades, the state's opioid crisis has heightened the ...

In California, the situation is particularly disturbing as more than 62 percent of painkiller prescriptions were found to ...

Experts recommend surgeons consider cutting back on the number of take-home opioid pills prescribed to patients post surgery. The ...

A group of 20 lawmakers backs a bill to require more rigorous medical training for police officers, borne ...

A pharmaceutical company has volunteered to distribute free Narcan Nasal Spray in all U.S. High Schools in conjunction ...

ADHD drugs have gained a reputation as “cognition enhancers” among students and young professionals.

What do conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, singer Courtney Love, and deceased actor Heath Ledger all have ...

In California and Chicago, deaths from the powerful opiate fentanyl have risen in recent days. According to a ...

There has been a wave of overdoses, some fatal, in the Sacramento area in California and the suspicion falls ...

Are you or is an older adult in your life suffering from misuse of drugs?

There are staggering statistics of America’s drug abuse crisis that can appear sterile but the reality is human ...

Opioids are a vital and irreplaceable important component of "palliative care." But physicians are increasingly divided about the ...

There are two opioid crises in the world today.

Abuse of opium products obtained from poppy plants dates back centuries, but today we are witnessing the first ...

As a physician treating pain conditions, I firmly believe, as the government has just confirmed, that excessive use ...

There is only one certainty about drugs—if you don't use them, you won't get addicted. Everything else we ...

AKRON, Ohio—A father and son who apparently overdosed on the powerful narcotic fentanyl have been found dead in ...

The mayor of Ithaca wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection ...

Over the last few decades, medicine has witnessed a sea change in attitudes toward chronic pain, and particularly ...

The pale, zombie-like addicts staggering through concrete underpasses make an unlikely scene in wealthy Norway's picturesque second city.

Traveling to a region in the throes of a drug abuse crisis, President Obama promised Wednesday to use ...

Scientists have reprogrammed the genetic machinery of baker’s yeast so that the fast-growing cells can convert sugar into ...

The year was 2010. The place--New Orleans where the American Psychiatric Association was holding its annual meeting. In ...

Americans consume a staggering amount of the opioid painkiller hydrocodone—about 99% of the world’s supply. In October, after ...