Cocaine and meth are being laced with fentanyl – and many drug users are unaware. This increases the risk of overdoses.

The grant allows UH to develop an Alternatives to Opioids program that educates caregivers about how music therapy and acupuncture can be used to decrease the use of opioids in the emergency ...

Here’s a look at the opioid crisis. Experts say the United States is in the throes of an opioid epidemic. An estimated 8.9 million Americans aged 12 and older misused opioids in 2023. Opioids are ...

The number of people with chronic pain has increased substantially in recent years, and the reason isn’t completely clear. A ...

Patients with opioid use disorder can reduce their days of opioid use and stay in treatment longer when using a smartphone ...

After large drops during the pandemic, life expectancy in the United States should recover to 2019 levels this year ...

Journalists and researchers analyzed more than 7,000 opioid settlement expenditures, making this the largest database of its kind.

Among people with dialysis-dependent kidney failure, a form of psychological therapy called pain coping skills training ...

This was a crucial year for opioid settlement money in Pennsylvania. For the first time, counties across the state faced serious accountability from a powerful state oversight board. The board ...

Ohio and Maryland are tied for having the sixth highest rate of pain reliever misuse in the nation, with 3.57% of the population reporting abusing pain medication.

A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods and test their risky formulas on people, as ...