Brendan Saloner ([email protected]), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Pooja Lagisetty, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Access and scale are two sides of the same coin. Whereas ...

We can’t solve what we can’t measure, so let’s use opioid abatement funds to help. Comprehensive toxicology would let us ...

The national Six Remnant Defendants lawsuit was brought Feb. 23. The total compensation paid to participating governments would be nearly $98 million.

Patients who are prescribed higher daily doses of the medication buprenorphine for opioid use disorder are significantly more ...

Pain is an epidemic in search of a treatment. If a particular pain persists for more than 3 months, it is considered chronic. In the USA, about 20% of adults suffer from chronic pain, and that pain ...

Opioids only provide small, short-lasting relief or are ineffective for many acute pain conditions, an overview of systematic ...

In consideration of recent US substance use treatment policy changes and unprecedented levels of adolescent opioid-related deaths, we examined the most recent national data (2022–23 National Survey on ...

Inappropriate prescribing trends and wasteful medication decisions can also have a significant detrimental economic impact. Research shows that the most costly prescribing decisions disproportionately ...

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

A decade after Vermont's governor dedicated his annual State of the State speech to the opioid epidemic, there's been some progress. But it's overshadowed by record-breaking fatal overdoses. A decade ...

"When we tested it on different models, diabetic neuropathy and chemotherapy-induced neuropathy, for example, we found this compound has an incredible beneficial effect." The new compound, dubbed ...