Unknown to them, the drug had been fortified with a nitazene compound called isotonitazene, a highly potent new synthetic opioid. Two of the men, Peter Haslam and Adrian Davies, overdosed and went ...

Despite years of official claims that it was “misinformation” to suggest that the black market was being flooded with ...

In March 2023, Norcross and a bipartisan group in Congress introduced the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access bill, which ...

CenExel, a leading network of clinical research sites, proudly congratulates and announces its role in supporting Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ clinical studies that led to the FDA approval of JOURNAVX™ ...

Veterans who were simultaneously prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) faced an ...

A binding rule published in the final days of the Biden administration changes the way providers prescribe medications for ...

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Less than 3% of all prescriptions involved opioids, the study found, and more than 90% of players never received an opioid for their pain.

The approach to bring those numbers down has been all hands on deck. While statistics show it's working, overdose deaths are rising at alarming rates among Black communities.

A new congressionally mandated report examines how opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing between 2007 and 2019 impacted all-cause mortality among veterans treated at the VHA.

Fentanyl trafficking and deaths caused by the drug have been cited by U.S. President Donald Trump to justify his threat of steep tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico. But the potent opioid also has ...

A "significant portion" of opioids prescribed in B.C. are being diverted, and prescribed alternatives are being trafficked a Ministry of Health document says.