Veterans could get free naloxone at VA clinics without a prescription under a bipartisan bill targeting overdose prevention.

Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

For many Americans, a routine surgical procedure serves as their first introduction to opioid pain medication. While most ...

For years, buprenorphine—one of the primary medications used to treat opioid use disorder—has been a critical bridge to recovery, helping to reduce illicit drug use and overdose deaths. But with the ...

A new synthetic opioid, N-Propionitrile Chlorphine, is linked to 16 overdose deaths in the state and has appeared in eight ...

The ongoing opioid epidemic highlights health care’s role in fueling the crisis as well as the highly addictive nature of ...

As the nation cautiously marks a two-year decline in overdose deaths, there are new warnings about emerging threats "even ...

About a million people experience overdoses in the U.S. every year. Nodding and overdose may both cause oxygen deprivation, affecting cells in the heart, body, and brain.

Infants exposed to opioids and psychotropic drugs during pregnancy have a 30% to 60% higher risk of experiencing neonatal withdrawal, a study has found. That risk doubles when multiple psychotropic ...

Baltimore nonprofit Helping Up Mission (HUM) unveiled its new Mobile Street Outreach bus, with help from a grant from the ...

A new synthetic opioid has now been linked to 16 deaths in East Tennessee, the Knox County Regional Forensic Center announced ...

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