Albany lawmakers must deliver Opioid Patients’ Right to Know Act to Gov. Kathy Hochul's desk. This is why.

Opioid addiction and overdose have been a nationwide epidemic since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

DENVER — The GLP-1 medication liraglutide significantly reduced opioid cravings in a small analysis presented on Saturday. It is the first randomized controlled trial to test anti-obesity drugs ...

For Lacy Sisk, 40, the lowest moment in her opioid addiction was watching her family pack their belongings because she could no longer afford to pay the rent. All of her money had gone to pain pills ...

The European Medicines Agency has recommended granting marketing authorization for a new hybrid formulation of buprenorphine as a substitution treatment of opioid drug dependence. Buprenorphine ...

Increasing the levels of chemicals naturally produced in the body called endocannabinoids may thwart the highly addictive nature of opioids such as morphine and oxycodone while maintaining the drugs' ...

A new scientific review of 148 studies enrolling over 4.3 million adult chronic pain patients treated with prescription opioid painkillers has found that nearly one in ten patients experiences opioid ...

Mercy Hospital Lebanon is piloting a program that gives opioid use disorder patients medication and a guaranteed virtual ...

Mercy's new program for addressing opioid addiction in the rural Ozarks focuses on supporting patients during the first 72 ...

Marshall County is inviting nonprofits and agencies to apply for grants aimed at combating opioid addiction, funded by ...

Missouri's Attorney General is taking legal action against the sale of "7-OH", a potent opioid that is being sold over the ...

Suzetrigine prevents pain signals from reaching the brain and doesn't give an opioid-like high, making it non-addictive—but it's expensive. Reading time 2 minutes To treat acute pain, doctors in the U ...