New persistent opioid use after surgery is associated with preoperative mood disorders, Medicaid status, and benzodiazepine ...

An existing drug currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures may also have the potential to prevent ...

Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

More than 15 years ago, Yale's Gail D'Onofrio started studying the effectiveness of sublingual (under-the-tongue) buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the emergency department.

The ongoing opioid epidemic highlights health care’s role in fueling the crisis as well as the highly addictive nature of ...

For years, buprenorphine—one of the primary medications used to treat opioid use disorder—has been a critical bridge to recovery, helping to reduce illicit drug use and overdose deaths. But with the ...

A new meta-analysis of 148 studies estimates that 9.3 percent of patients who receive opioid prescriptions for chronic pain experience "dependence" or "opioid use disorder" (D&OUD). The authors, Kyla ...

A committee of the Virginia Opioid Abatement Authority approved more than half a million dollars in new grants this month, ...

The Ward County Detention Center is seeing success with an opioid use disorder treatment program that has been the first of ...

As hospitals look for ways to better manage pain and reduce reliance on opioids, some emergency departments are placing ...

Once the Affordable Care Act was fully implemented in 2014, people who struggled with misusing opioids were 50 percent more likely to get treatment and twice as likely to have that treatment paid for ...