Wisconsin should not use opioid settlement dollars on treatments that don't work such as the higher-dose formulations of the ...

Dallas County commissioners awarded about $1 million from Purdue Pharma lawsuit settlement funds to each caregiver.

North Dakota lawmakers chose not to ban the plant-based substance kratom, but one lawmaker indicated a bill to regulate the ...

The US death toll from fentanyl is falling as communities hand out overdose-reversal drug naloxone. Behind the good news, opioids remain rife – and users report harrowing effects from the antidote.

Acute opioid withdrawal has been described to me as a feeling worse than death. As those suffering from opioid use disorder are familiar with use of an opioid as a way to ease withdrawal symptoms ...

Xylazine and sister drugs are longer-lasting anesthetics that delay opioid withdrawal, so users need fewer fixes – and thus take fewer rolls of the dice with death. Xylazine and medetomidine ...

Although, preclinical data suggest that the behavioral expression of opioid use is similar between male and female rodents, we do not have conclusive results on sex differences on craving and relapse ...

In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid settlements paid by ...

The FDA approved the first non-opioid treatment for the management of opioid withdrawal symptoms in 2018. The treatment, Lucemyra (lofexidine hydrochloride), was found to be able to help nearly ...

Lisa Marie Presley 's opioid addiction spiralled out of control to the point where she was taking 80 pills a day, according ...

I was still trying to be a wife and a mother, which I was failing at both, and I was not able to hold a job, because, when you run out of pills every three days, opiate withdrawal is excruciating.

The Dare County Department of Health & Human Services (DCDHHS) is warning residents about kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), a plant native to Southeast Asia.