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 ...

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

A new study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence found that US states that legalized marijuana for medical and adult recreational use saw a 9-to-11-percentage-point decline in daily ...

The Ward County Detention Center is seeing success with an opioid use disorder treatment program that has been the first of ...

The rate of opioid use in pregnancy more than doubled in 12 years, a new Oregon Health & Science University study using ...

As hospitals look for ways to better manage pain and reduce reliance on opioids, some emergency departments are placing ...

One county in Colorado has committed to investing more than $4 million into opioid prevention, treatment and recovery. It's ...

A committee of the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority approved more than half a million dollars in new grants this month, ...

During the opioid crisis in the United States, acute pain management has remained a persistent challenge for both patients ...

A new meta-analysis of 148 studies estimates that 9.3 percent of patients who receive opioid prescriptions for chronic pain experience "dependence" or "opioid use disorder" (D&OUD). The authors, Kyla ...