The hospital is a good place to start addiction treatment Hospitalized opioid users were more likely to start medication treatment if they received addiction consultation services They were also more ...

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 ...

For many Americans, a routine surgical procedure serves as their first introduction to opioid pain medication. While most ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will invest $100 million to improve homelessness, opioid addiction and ...

During the opioid crisis in the United States, acute pain management has remained a persistent challenge for both patients ...

BETHESDA, Md. — Lying inside a scanner, the patient watched as pictures appeared one by one: A bicycle. A cupcake. Heroin. Outside, researchers tracked her brain's reactions to the surprise sight of ...

How political red tape and a drug company’s thirst for profits limited the reach of a drug that experts believe could have reduced the opioid epidemic’s toll. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer ...

The steep rise in the number of people suffering opioid addiction has helped spawn the widespread use of another substance: kratom, a green powdered herbal supplement that is widely available and ...

Opioids may affect how cute people think babies are, a new small study finds. In the study, people with an opioid dependence who viewed images of cute babies didn't show any activity in the part of ...

Opioid deaths and overdoses have been mostly cut in half in Manchester and Nashua over the past 10 years, but the story of how and why can’t be found in a spreadsheet. It lives in the resilience of ...

Hospitalized opioid users were more likely to start medication treatment if they received addiction consultation services They were also more likely to follow up with a treatment program after their ...