When experiencing pain after surgery, patients are often prescribed powerful opioid pain relievers. These medications are addictive, and patients who have never abused drugs can become dependent on ...

CREOKS Health Services in McAlester gave its first quartly update on the city’s opioid abatement program to council this ...

A study has shown that unlike opioids like morphine, the experimental painkiller does not cause tolerance, meaning you don't ...

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy ap ...

Signs that a teen might have recently started using drugs were listed on materials handed out to parents: behaving ...

Researchers have found opioids don’t mitigate pain any better than a placebo. Researchers in Australia have found that for low back pain sufferers in their mid-40s, opioids don’t mitigate pain any ...

As a medical student, the prism of pain helped me begin seeing patients as people — discerning their stories, examining their bodies, understanding their lives, and more. In medical schools around the ...

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling in the tissue around oral cancers both increases nerve sensitivity and ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s latest plan to study whether opioids are effective as a chronic pain treatment is facing significant resistance from addiction and pain care experts. A planned ...

Two advisory committees to the US Food and Drug Administration have voted unanimously to recommend that a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone (also called Narcan), be made ...

Scientists are racing to redesign how powerful painkillers work, aiming to keep the relief that opioids provide while stripping away the worst dangers of addiction and overdose. Instead of tweaking ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose associated with opioid medications like Vicodin and OxyContin ...