When combined with counseling and behavioral therapies, opioid use disorder medications are part of a comprehensive plan that supports long-term recovery. Opioid use disorder (OUD) occurs when ...

People who leave jail and prison are at extremely high risk of a drug overdose, research shows. In this study of people with probable opioid use disorder in Massachusetts county jails, those who ...

The Food and Drug Administration is attempting to put a spotlight on the potential risks associated with prolonged use of opioid pain medications by mandating changes to the way those products are ...

Nearly all Americans are aware of the U.S. opioid crisis. Overdose deaths increased sixfold between 2003 and 2023, from 12,940 to 79,358. Yearly increases have been especially steep since 2013, when ...

Dr. Sarah Spencer sits in the back of the Ninilchik Community Clinic's mobile clinic, assembling an opioid harm-reduction kit. Medications like buprenorphine are important tools in the spectrum of ...

This illustration image shows tablets of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. A novel non-opioid treatment for post-surgical pain, suzetrigine, is set to enter the market in 2025. Its uptake could be ...

Drug overdose is the number one cause of accidental death in Connecticut, where someone is more likely to die from a drug overdose than from a car accident. Researchers are seeking to understand how ...

People recovering from opioid addiction risk relapse when they can't get their medications after natural disasters. A group ...

May 1 marks the first payment of billions to try to address ongoing harms from the overdose crisis.