According to a Vertex spokesperson, the drug is seeing strong initial market adoption, with growing payer coverage and ongoing clinical studies aimed at expanding its use beyond acute pain management.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl ...

Missoula city and county are accepting applications for opioid settlement funding for existing and new programs focused on ...

“Accidental drug overdoses for Orange County have decreased by 30% from 2023 to 2024 while opioid-related drug overdoses have ...

Two men in peak physical condition never expected to be stricken with Covid. Since recovering years ago, they still ...

Johnson County receives new funding to combat youth opioid use, focusing on prevention, treatment, and supporting parents in crisis management.

Bexar County Commissioners Court on Tuesday declared drug overdoses a public health crisis. Andrea Guerrero-Guajardo, the ...

When MultiCare peer support liaison Chandelle Gill speaks to a patient about their addiction, she can see herself.

Last fall, when initial data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a surprising drop in drug overdose deaths, the universal response was relief. We were finally getting something ...

Xylazine, which is added to fentanyl and makes the synthetic opioid even deadlier, is being manufactured abroad and smuggled ...

Phase Inpatient Withdrawal Programme for Long-Term Opioid Use in Non-Cancer Pain,” published in the March 2025 issue of ...

Doerring, M.D., former FDA medical officer in the division of psychiatry and the founder and CEO of TaperClinic, he shares ...