A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...

“Addiction experts agree that individuals suffering from an opioid addiction need access to a broad range of treatments, including medication-assisted therapy,” Higgins said. “Treatments limited to ...

this study highlights the importance for clinicians to keep monitoring the level of pain while also understanding what the ...

In the parking lot outside a church in the Eastern Shore of Maryland, a mobile treatment unit quietly offers what too many people desperately need in the United States but too often cannot get – ...

As a pharmacist for HCMC and Hennepin emergency services, Holly Drone has seen a lot. But when Drone described the pain of opiate withdrawal on patients, she turned to her clients’ and co-workers’ ...

If you haven’t heard of 7-OH, now is the time to get familiarized and make sure that you and your loved ones know how to recognize and avoid it. The compound 7-hydroxyitragynine, 7-OH, is up to 13 ...

The drug epidemic is claiming more lives than ever before. Last year more than 107,000 people died from a drug overdose. Experts say fentanyl use is increasing and the synthetic opioid is to blame for ...

Dear Eric: I grew up with family members who made it their mission to tell everybody else how to live their life. Because of this contempt for people who have that insatiable need to control others, I ...