Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of ...

For the first time, Americans can see the rise — and fall — of legal opioids entering their community. A database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks every single ...

In addition, some of the excipients used to prepare oral modified-release opioid products, particularly talc, may lead to serious complications if these products are parenterally abused.

At home in the United States, Purdue Pharma, the drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid crisis through its aggressive marketing of highly addictive pain pills, is bankrupt and facing thousands of ...

Opioid antagonists are medications people can take to treat opioid use disorder. They help by reducing withdrawal symptoms, addressing cravings, and managing overdoses. Doctors prescribe opioid ...

A wildly popular diabetes and weight-loss drug may also protect people from overdosing on opioids. That’s the implication of a new study that examined health records of people with type 2 ...

Suboxone is a combination of two drugs, buprenorphine and naloxone, that treats opioid use disorder (OUD). OUD is a real medical condition, just like diabetes or cancer, and is not anyone’s fault.

The city of St. Petersburg, Florida, is allocating $1 million from an opioid settlement to nonprofit organizations working to address the opioid crisis through treatment and recovery support services.

BALTIMORE — The city of Baltimore has reached a settlement with Walgreens, leaving three remaining defendants in the city’s ongoing lawsuit against drug manufacturers and distributors accused of ...

But people taking the medication may also be at a lower risk of opioid overdose. Prescriptions for the drug were linked to lower overdose rates among patients with both diabetes and opioid use ...

2:00 Semaglutide medication’s like Ozempic contribute to heart health, study finds Researchers studied 33,006 patients diagnosed with both Type 2 diabetes and opioid use disorder. Of these ...