Seattle became the first city in the nation to allow firefighters or EMTs to administer the medication this fall, following ...

Researchers analyzed the availability of medications for opioid use disorder at psychiatric hospitals in the US.

Everett's pilot program provides buprenorphine post-overdose, offering early success in opioid crisis intervention.

A B.C. pharmacist who filed a human rights complaint after he was initially barred from practising, due to his intent to take ...

The failure of the trial of the drug AZD4041 by pharma giant AstraZeneca, to combat opioid use disorder (OUD), highlights the ...

There is a significantly higher 90-day hospital readmission rate amonginfants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome compared to those without.

Increasing the levels of chemicals naturally produced in the body called endocannabinoids may thwart the highly addictive nature of opioids such as morphine and oxycodone while maintaining the drugs' ...

Emily Jackson, 27, has now been sober for more than two years and she credits the opioid medication assisted treatment ...

These medications can decrease severe and painful withdrawal symptoms and minimize opioid cravings. We recognize that opioid addiction is a complicated disorder, so MAT includes individual and ...

A study using Swedish patient data found anti-obesity drugs were linked with fewer hospitalizations related to alcohol use, ...

This manuscript represents a fundamental contribution demonstrating that fentanyl-induced respiratory depression can be reversed with a peripherally-restricted mu opioid receptor antagonist. The paper ...