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, ...

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September 26, 2011 (Las Vegas, Nevada) — A novel opioid drug candidate being developed to reduce the likelihood of abuse has shown safety, tolerability, and significant bioavailability in a phase 1 ...

In a new study, opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in specific regions of their brains. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News "This is your brain on drugs," the old anti-drug ...

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 ...

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey (WABC) -- 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 ...

Could sex hormones explain the difference in opioid use and misuse between genders? Since 1999, the American opioid epidemic has killed more than half a million people, and according to the National ...

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

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 ...