While the opioid epidemic is one of the most urgent public health emergencies facing the U.S., new therapeutic approaches for treating the underlying substance use disorder have lagged far behind. | ...

A novel mu-opioid receptor agonist showed strong analgesia without respiratory depression, tolerance, or significant ...

More good news in the battle against opioid addiction. Scientists have reopened research into a class of opioids that were ...

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that quiets pain at its source in the brain—without the addictive risks of opioids. Using AI to map how pain is processed, they created a targeted “off ...

The clinics that control methadone are driving people out of treatment and back to a toxic supply of street drugs.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a novel, highly potent opioid that shows potential as ...

A recent study explodes the myth that the risk of addiction to prescription opioids exists only among patients abusing their opioids. Until recently, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) ...

OpEd: The harm to our kids caused by Meta and other online platforms is both hard to quantify and something every parent can ...

General Hospital‘s Jacob Young opened up for the first time about secretly battling an addiction for years. “I had some dental surgery done,” Young, 46, shared on a recent episode of the “Imperfectly ...

Suzetrigine prevents pain signals from reaching the brain and doesn't give an opioid-like high, making it non-addictive—but it's expensive. Reading time 2 minutes To treat acute pain, doctors in the U ...

The Hub is one of several defendants named in the wrongful death lawsuit about David Thacker. From David Hudnall: ...

April 1st’s Luzerne County Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Commission meeting will now be open to the public, thanks to ...