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, ...

Opioid abuse, addiction, and diversion also have important costs to the public sector, at local, state, and federal levels. 22,23 Locally, there are substantial costs to law enforcement agencies, ...

We are all tragically too familiar with the opioid crisis that continues to grip the nation. What started largely as a problem of over-prescribing and abuse of legitimate opioid-based pain medication ...

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 ...

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 ...

Veterans could get free naloxone at VA clinics without a prescription under a bipartisan bill targeting overdose prevention.

Data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that all drug overdose deaths nationwide decreased 23% to 69,172 during its reporting period of August 2024 to August 2025. Of those, 38,514 ...

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 ...

WATERTOWN, S.D. (KELO) — On average, 130 Americans die each day from an opioid overdose, according to the CDC. A Watertown eye doctor who once abused pain meds says she wouldn’t be alive today if it ...

Are Abuse-Deterrent Drugs Less Addictive? Medscape: In a national survey [1] of internists, family physicians, and general practitioners, nearly one half stated that they believed abuse-deterrent ...

"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 ...