Suboxone is now the standard of care in the U.S. for treating opioid addiction, but its downsides are often overlooked. RFK ...

In the early 2000s, Michelle Warfield worked at a factory, hauling heavy seats for Ford trucks on and off an assembly line.

A Virginia Tech research team is working to develop a vaccine that could help stop opioid addiction.

After years of hiding his substance abuse, Ken Rideout finally confessed to his wife. It was the start of a difficult and rewarding journey, which led to athletic success in his 50s ...

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

The number of New Yorkers prescribed a key medication for opioid use disorder increased 7% during the pandemic as health providers battled against skyrocketing drug overdose deaths, a state report ...

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The last time singer, songwriter and activist Melissa Etheridge heard her son’s voice, he said, “I’m sick. Mom, it’s fentanyl.” According to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, there were ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the years since 2017 when the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency, more than half a million ...

A new vaccine being tested could offer another solution to help opioid users with an addiction. “All my life, I've been working on drugs of abuse like substance abuse disorder, etcetera,” Marco ...

Multiple states have raised the alarm in the past month about cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid tied to several dozen recent ...