Consider this: While opioid abuse declined in younger groups between 2002 and 2014, even sharply among those 18 to 25 years old, the epidemic almost doubled among Americans over age 50, according ...

President Obama’s bill to expand access to treatment for prescription drug abuse and heroin use passed in the House last week and the Senate this week. (The president has said he’ll sign the ...

Of the 1.1 million Medicare recipients with opioid-use disorder, 170,408 were prescribed buprenorphine in 2021, of which just 1,245 – or 0.7% – potentially misused the drug due to high dosages ...

Researchers say there are too many gaps between current treatment options for opioid drug abuse and the evidence-based practices utilized in much of the rest of the developed world. Photo by ...

However, several new opioid-specific screening tools, such as the Opioid Risk Tool, the Screening Instrument for Substance Abuse, and the Prescription Drug Use Questionnaire, are reasonably fast ...

A year ago, the U.S. was in the grips of an epidemic -- the scourge of opioid addiction, with more than 70,000 lives lost to drug overdoses in 2019, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Nitazene is a synthetic opioid that is banned in the United States. "Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids that can be more powerful than fentanyl ," read a news release from the Pennsylvania ...

Data: CDC; Note: 2024 data is provisional and may be underreported; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Louisiana's drug overdose deaths fell 35.2% between 2023 and 2024, according to preliminary CDC data, an ...

Drug overdoses took the lives of more than 107,000 Americans in 2022, according to the CDC, and more than 80,000 involved at least one opioid. (CDC) A group of RAND researchers has offered a fresh ...

Pennsylvania classified a largely unknown but extremely potent synthetic opioid as a controlled substance. Nitazenes are a ...

Of the 1.1 million Medicare recipients with opioid-use disorder, 170,408 were prescribed buprenorphine in 2021, of which just 1,245 – or 0.7% – potentially misused the drug due to high dosages ...