Researchers evaluated opioid prescribing trends by provider type for emergency department visits at noninstitutional and short-stay hospitals from 2019 to 2021.

America’s shocking toll of drug-related deaths far exceeds Europe’s. It’s no accident.

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The Justice Department says the Kennebunk doctor, who specialized in addiction treatment, prescribed controlled substances, ...

Q: I recently had to have additional surgery after a total knee replacement. Nothing the hospital gave me for pain helped at all. My neighbor told me that after her surgery, she had the same ...

A new study finds that an easily measurable brain wave shift of phase may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under general anesthesia.

An artificial intelligence (AI) model improved outcomes in hospitalized patients by quadrupling the rate of detection and ...

Objective Morphine is used as palliative treatment of chronic breathlessness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Part of the patients does not experience a clinically ...

The study, repeatedly delayed by more than a decade and released Monday, revealed a far higher percentage of pain patients addicted to opioids than drugmakers’ sales reps claimed in their marketing ...