Overdose deaths are significantly down, but now cartels are adding new toxic adulterants like lidocaine, medetomidine, and ...

The opioid crisis has made it even more urgent to come up with novel approaches to treating suffering. Finally there’s ...

The standard is associated with both an accelerated decline in opioid prescribing and aggressive dose tapering.

For months, public health experts have been monitoring a trend equal parts promising and perplexing: a steep decline in ...

Data: CDC; Note: 2024 data is provisional and may be underreported; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Washington state may have begun to reverse its yearslong trend of rising drug overdose deaths, preliminary ...

The provisional numbers are estimates of everyone who died of overdoses in the U.S., including noncitizens. That data are still being processed, and the final numbers can sometimes differ a bit. But ...

4 Discontinue if opioid pain therapy is also discontinued. Not an inclusive list of medications and/or official indications. Please see drug monograph at www.eMPR.com and/or contact company for ...

With ultra-potent opioids like fentanyl, even minor dosing errors can prove fatal. Drug contaminants ... The question now is whether we will repeat others’ mistakes—or chart a more responsible course.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s new non-opioid painkiller is being placed on a tier that means it might be costlier than other pain treatments on UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s approved drug lists.

The COINED study is a 14-month observational retrospective cohort study with secondary data analysis from electronic health records and medical charts ... drugs. Risk of Precipitated Withdrawal ...