After all, cannabis is a comparatively safe substance and opioids are often deadly. That doesn’t make criminalization the ...

Millions upon millions of legal opioids inundated the city and Baltimore County as pharmaceutical sales representatives singled out the highest-prescribing doctors for advertising, cracked jokes about ...

News of the opioid crisis has inundated the headlines in recent years. Despite the attention this problem has received, America experienced a record number of overdose deaths last year. While we are ...

Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

The world's largest review of opioid pain relievers prescribed for acute pain found these medicines provide only small, short ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A car crash shattered Stuart Anders’ thigh, leaving pieces of bone sticking through his skin. Yet Anders begged emergency room doctors not to give him powerful opioid painkillers — he ...

It promises powerful relief without the high or harm. So why is this breakthrough drug still flying under the radar? For years, opioids have dominated the world of pain management. They’re strong, ...

Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a medical condition characterized by a problematic pattern of opioid use that leads to significant impairment or distress. It is a chronic disease that can result from the ...

An existing drug currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures may also have the potential to prevent ...

There are signs the presence of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, may be declining in Montana. The drug was largely ...

The use of opioids alone does not significantly impair cognition in patients with HIV infection, but the combined use of opioids and antidepressants is linked to poorer neurocognitive performance.