When I started taking opioids, they were all I was taking. I’d always thought of medicine as a take-only-when-needed kind of thing, not something I would be on for the long term. I was young.
The exponential rise in opioid prescriptions by pharmaceutical companies, despite awareness of their addictive nature, has ...
State and local governments are receiving billions of dollars in opioid settlements to address the drug crisis that has ravaged America for decades. But instead of spending the money on new ...
The opioid crisis refers to the rapid increase in opioid overuse, misuse, and overdose deaths since the 1990s. It involves both prescription opioids and opioids that people use recreationally.
Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Before Dr. Bobby Mukkamala — an ear, nose, and throat specialist in Michigan — prescribed post-surgical ...
Colorful flags and floats rolled down Waterside Drive for the 71st annual Parade of Nations, during the Virginia International Tattoo.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again was arrested this week over a “large scale prescription fraud ring,” police claim in a new filing.
Opioid receptors are members of the large family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which control many signalling processes in the body, such as taste and smell, while others bind ...
ABC News’ Dr. Jen Ashton discusses how the number of emergency visits among children for prescription opioids had decreased for a decade but increased between 2019 and 2020. A U.S. citizen has ...
Allowing addiction medicine specialists to prescribe methadone would improve the availability of a lifesaving treatment.
The opioid crisis has had a widespread and destructive impact on our state and the entire country, which is why we're working together to fight back. State and local leaders are investing in ...
New details are emerging on why the rapper was arrested earlier this week while under house arrest. By Bill Donahue Utah police are accusing YoungBoy Never Broke Again (aka NBA YoungBoy) of ...