The device, which is cleared by the FDA for withdrawal mitigation from opioid use disorder, works by abating severe symptoms such as stomach aches, back aches, sweats, and the inability to keep food ...

Health insurance loss, changes "may undermine continuity of critical treatment," researche ...

EXCLUSIVE: In the years since 2017 when the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency, more than half a million ...

The effect was seen across a wide variety of addictive and habit-forming substances, including cocaine, opioids, alcohol, ...

The Iowa Attorney General's Office has launched an Opioid Crisis Grant application site to support communities in tackling the opioid crisis. Attorney General Brenna Bird announced that over $365 ...

In a prison system rife with drugs, a new civil rights lawsuit accuses the Missouri DOC of punishing people for addiction, rather than treating it.

Evidence continues to mount suggesting that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may help people cut back on cigarettes, ...

New research suggests the weight-loss medications could be powerful tools in tackling substance use disorders.

Mississippi will receive more than $400M to fight the opioid epidemic. So far, officials haven’t directed it toward programs ...

Weight-loss jabs could prevent and treat addiction to alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, according to a large study. Experts ...

Municipalities in Maine spent more than $3 million in opioid settlement funds last year but that's only a fraction of the ...

A large new study suggests they may drastically reduce the risk substance use disorders and drug-related deaths.