An Indian-origin physician, Sanjay Mehta, pleaded guilty to unlawfully prescribing opioids, including to two poeple who ...

Compassion fatigue can affect those who have turned their pain into purpose. Sometimes we have to come off the front lines of ...

Black patients with opioid use disorder are less likely to receive referrals to outpatient treatment for opioid use disorder.

Gabapentin, a common painkiller, may increase dementia risk with frequent use. Younger users are especially vulnerable.

More than ten years after the closing of the Long Island Bridge, and twenty years into a national opioid crisis, a top official in Boston has declared the city’s efforts to resolve the drug-use ...

Results show that NSAIDs like ibuprofen are now the prescription painkiller of choice, provided to nearly 29% of low back ...

A pilot program initially designed to get immediate after-care help lined up for people who land in UC San Diego Health’s ...

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach on Tuesday announced an approximate $720 million nationwide settlement with eight drug makers that manufactured opioid pills and worsened the nationwide opioid ...

Kansas will receive about $5.7 million as part of a $720 million nationwide opioid settlement with eight drug companies accused of fueling the opioid crisis through illegal marketing practices.

Illegal opioids can create substantial harms, but the extent of those harms depends on multiple factors, including the amount consumed.

Illegal opioids can create substantial harms, but the extent of those harms depends on multiple factors, including the amount ...

Key Takeaways Opioids aren’t being handed out in ERs for treatment of low back painCases where opioids were prescribed fell by half between 2016 and 2022Reductions also occurred in opioids ...