This browser does not support the Video element. The nation’s top public health agency on Thursday softened its guidelines for U.S. doctors prescribing oxycodone and other opioid painkillers. The ...

United States overdose deaths in 2025 fell to levels similar to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overdose deaths for the ...

The CDC clarified aspects of its opioid prescribing guidelines for chronic pain in an April 9 letter to three cancer organizations, reports Medscape. The groups met with CDC leaders in fall 2018, ...

The communications campaign will run for 14 weeks in Ohio, Kentucky, Massachusetts and New Mexico, sharing the stories of people who have lost loved ones to opioid overdoses and those recovering from ...

The probability of chronic opioid use spikes after just a few days of prescribed use, according to a new study published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. For the study, CDC ...

The nation's top public health agency is proposing changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...

While the United States saw a record high of 33,000 opioid-related deaths in 2015, new research from the CDC suggests this tally may be short of the actual cost of life associated with the most lethal ...

The opioid epidemic in the United States shows no signs of slowing, according to a Vital Signs report released Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report found that ...

Fewer patients are leaving emergency departments with opioid prescriptions, a continuation of a trend that began a decade ago, according to CDC data brief released Jan. 19. In 2019 to 2020, 8 percent ...

Babies who experience opioid withdrawal after being exposed to the drugs in utero are more likely to encounter educational difficulties in the future, according to a study from the CDC presented ...

While opioid prescriptions have declined since 2010, the amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was still three times higher than in 1999, according to the CDC’s most recent Morbidity and Mortality ...