More than 5 million Americans struggle with opioid use disorder, a physical addiction entwined with America’s health crisis, homeless crisis and mental health crisis. The most successful, ...

The program's expansion is being funded by money Orange County received through national legal settlements with opioid ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug ...

A new study published in Addiction has found that opioid smoking appears to be associated with lower mortality risk compared ...

Vinnidhy Dave, D.O., hospice specialist and director of palliative medicine at Englewood Health Physician Network, and Lauren Savage, director of population health at Englewood Hospital, discuss what ...

Rates of opioid use were similar for people with opioid use disorder prescribed buprenorphine who participated in mindfulness training versus a recovery support group, a randomized trial showed. Among ...

Under a new state pilot, paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering a medication that blunts withdrawals and cravings.

Clinicians and policymakers need a more accurate estimate of the prevalence of problematic opioid use, authors say.

The newest treatment for AUD, acamprosate (Campral) was developed in France. The FDA approved the drug for abstinence ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...