Despite a surge in prescriptions for the non-opioid pain drug suzetrigine, clinicians are still sorting out who benefits the ...

Study finds widely prescribed opioid painkiller tramadol shows limited effectiveness for chronic pain while increasing risk ...

Opioids affect both the gut and the immune system, said Summer Thompson, an assistant professor studying gut-brain ...

Purdue Pharma recently reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and the District of Columbia over its alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis through aggressive marketing of OxyContin.

Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to ...

Approximately 43% of patients aged 65 years or older with rheumatic disease filled at least one opioid prescription in 2021, ...

If a parent has persistent opioid prescriptions, their adolescent or young adult offspring has more than double the risk of persistent opioid use, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine ...

A federally funded study published by the American Medical Association (AMA) is adding more evidence that marijuana can serve as an effective substitute for opioids in chronic pain treatment. The ...

Jan. 18 (UPI) --The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit against Walgreens, accusing the 124-year-old pharmacy chain of dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions over a period of several ...

University of Oklahoma defensive lineman Danny Okoye is using his platform to tout the availability of a drug used to treat ...

National pharmaceutical retailer Walgreens has agreed to pay at least $300 million to settle allegations it illegally ...

Tennessee will receive more than $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds. Experts fear the money isn’t reaching people who ...