The search for a safer opioid has followed pain medicine for decades. Doctors still need strong drugs for surgery, major injury, cancer pain, and severe flare-ups. Yet the same medicines can slow ...

As the clinical-stage biotech sector tackles this multibillion dollar public health imperative, a mix of established players ...

Duke University researchers are developing an experimental drug that targets mitochondria inside nerve cells to provide pain ...

A study by ASU researchers continues to delve into how opioid withdrawal affects the brain. Using mice, they explored the ...

Over the past several years, our government has taken control of doctors’ prescription pads. In an attempt to reduce opioid overdose deaths, lawmakers placed hard quantitative limits on the maximum ...

Opioid misuse and specifically opioid use disorder (OUD), continues to represent a significant U.S. public health threat, with more than 6 million Americans aged 12 and older meeting the criteria for ...

DENVER — A weight-loss drug used to treat obesity and diabetes has shown promise to treat another disorder: opioid addiction. Early results from a small clinical trial, presented February 17 at the ...

The combination of prescribed central nervous system stimulants, such as drugs that relieve ADHD symptoms, with prescribed opioid medications is associated with a pattern of escalating opioid intake, ...

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DANBURY, Conn. & RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Total national prescription opioid use has declined by 60% from the peak volume in 2011 after another year of double-digit decline that ...

Emergency department visit rates because of an opioid overdose increased by 28.5 percent across the U.S. in 2020, compared to 2018 and 2019, recent research finds. Emergency department visit rates ...