While overall rates of opioid overdose in the state have decreased in recent years, data from the Washington Department of ...

Pregnant people and new mothers who are being treated for opioid addiction often have to fight to keep their children out of the hands of child protective services. But it’s a fight they shouldn’t ...

Hepatitis C and opioid use disorder are both chronic but treatable conditions. Yet many Americans living with this deadly combination aren’t offered treatment. Imagine going to your doctor with strep ...

Health insurance loss, changes "may undermine continuity of critical treatment," researche ...

Multiple states have raised the alarm in the past month about cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid tied to several dozen recent ...

Imagine a patient named Rosa tells you she wakes up night after night in a drenching sweat after having very realistic dreams of smoking fentanyl. The dreams seem crazy to her. Three months ago, newly ...

A Virginia Tech research team is working to develop a vaccine that could help stop opioid addiction.

An op-ed from California's governor: The Trump administration has abandoned American families just as the country was making headway in our fight against the overdose epidemic.

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

The number of New Yorkers prescribed a key medication for opioid use disorder increased 7% during the pandemic as health providers battled against skyrocketing drug overdose deaths, a state report ...

The device, which is cleared by the FDA for withdrawal mitigation from opioid use disorder, works by abating severe symptoms such as stomach aches, back aches, sweats, and the inability to keep food ...