Laws requiring physicians to check a patient’s drug history in state databases help lower opioid abuse incidence, according to a paper in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by Ithaca, ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - January 15, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has released ...

How does your doctor actually prescribe opioid medication? Why is it hard to get a refill? What are the best solutions to ...

People who abuse opioids are more likely to be hospitalized for sepsis and die, even if they are young and otherwise healthy, according to new research. Researchers analyzed 6.7 million U.S. hospital ...

A program designed to stem opioid abuse at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility has its funding withdrawn, reinstated ...

On a global level, it is estimated that 20% of adults suffer from pain, and 10% are being newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year (Goldberg and McGee 2011). The presence of chronic pain afflicts ...

"This is your brain on drugs," the old anti-drug admonition says, and now a new study has found there's something to that chestnut. Opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in ...

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey -- The nation's addiction to opioids is part of a crisis plaguing communities across America and particularly the Tri-State Area. According to the National Institute on Drug ...

Are Abuse-Deterrent Drugs Less Addictive? Medscape: In a national survey [1] of internists, family physicians, and general practitioners, nearly one half stated that they believed abuse-deterrent ...

The 2025 Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series helped New Jersey prescribers deepen their understanding of safer, non-opioid pain management options, advancing efforts to reduce opioid misuse ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on Thursday to help drug companies develop generic versions of approved opioids with abuse-deterrent formulations while ensuring that ...

Tym Rourke was working in the late 1990s at a small, nonprofit substance-abuse-prevention program in New Hampshire when he found himself on the phone with a mother desperate for help. Rourke referred ...