TAKING DELICATE sips, as if it were hot tea, it takes the elderly patient three goes to finish her shot glass of bright liquid. The cherry flavour is the best, her nurse explains, but it is still ...

Orange County’s Office for a Drug-Free Community leads efforts to curb opioid deaths through prevention education, enforcement, treatment and recovery. Credit: Orange County Government media gallery ...

Medication-assisted treatment are the gold standard for treating opioid addiction. Yet despite its proven track record, health care professionals are struggling to ensure people stick with them.

You're reading Part 5 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...

As an emergency department physician, I have been on the front lines of the opioid overdose crisis, treating countless people — young and old, housed and unhoused — experiencing an overdose or ...

The mobile unit visits Philadelphia neighborhoods that have high rates of fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses. Jeff Fusco/The Conversation US, CC BY-ND A mobile team offering medication treatment to ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Several medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of opioid dependence, along with counseling and behavior changes, appear to be helping in the ...

Opiate addiction is a growing concern across the globe, affecting millions of individuals and their families. While many are aware of the dangers associated with illegal drugs, fewer people recognize ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how a neural circuit—or a connection between two brain regions—drives ...

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

People leaving North Carolina prisons are far more likely to die of an overdose in their first weeks back home. Prison ...

Denise Botcheos, behavioral health director at Prevention Point, holds up a Suboxone film, a daily-use medication used to treat opioid dependence. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...