Physicians ignored century-old lessons learned during America’s post-Civil War opioid crisis by overprescribing powerful opioid drugs in the 1990s and 2000s, a medical historian testified Wednesday in ...

Read between the lines, and McSwain is clearly suggesting that Safehouse would represent an unprecedented about-face on U.S. drug policy, which for the past half century has criminalized narcotics ...

Now, with the rise of prescription painkillers, the introduction of extremely potent synthetic opioids and the resurgence of heroin, the nation is locked in an ongoing overdose epidemic some have ...

Benjamin Siegel, a professor of history at Boston University, visited Yale on Friday to discuss the sociopolitical and agricultural origins of the opioid crisis, focusing on Indian poppy markets. Each ...

Recent months have seen a surge in opioid-related lawsuit filings against pharmaceutical companies and individual leadership of pharma companies, as well as retail pharmacies and dispensaries. All in ...

The opioid crisis is awful but not entirely new. We've heard the recent numbers. The federal government reports that more than 130 people die from opioid-related overdoses per day. We've been through ...

Medication use for opioid use disorder has increased but remains low, and methadone and buprenorphine are linked to reduced risk for opioid overdose, a new study shows.

LYNCHBURG, Va. – First lady Melania Trump called the opioid epidemic the "worst drug crisis in American history" during a town-hall meeting with students at Liberty University in Virginia on Wednesday ...

Dentists may want to ask about family members' opioid use before prescribing an opioid to a patient for oral surgery. Adolescents with persistent opioid use were nearly twice as likely to have a ...

Nausea, sweating, and diarrhea are just some of the possible symptoms of opioid withdrawal. How soon those symptoms start and how long they last can vary by person, but the general opioid withdrawal ...