Whether children receive an opioid prescription after surgery varies substantially by procedure type and hospital, according ...

Medetomidine-laced opioids cause severe, life-threatening withdrawal in jails. Here's why many facilities remain ill-equipped ...

Overdose deaths confirmed to involve nitazenes have risen sharply in the U.S., from 27 in 2020 to 409 in 2024, according to ...

People who take oxycodone need to be careful when also taking antifungal drugs or drinking grapefruit juice. Why? Because both the juice and the drug can result in abnormally high, perhaps dangerously ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released updated and expanded recommendations for prescribing opioids for adults with acute and chronic pain not related to cancer, sickle ...

The U.S. remains in the midst of an ever-worsening drug overdose crisis. Because prescription opioids drove its earlier phases, the nation responded by drastically reducing access to those drugs — ...

Two advisory committees to the US Food and Drug Administration have voted unanimously to recommend that a nasal spray version of the opioid overdose antidote, naloxone (also called Narcan), be made ...

This follows a smaller drop the previous year. A new national report details the decrease, but experts warn the gains in ...

Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement on Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies, becoming the latest major drug industry player to promise major ...

Many people take prescription opioids, such as codeine and hydrocodone, to manage pain, so this news may be quite alarming. But can prescription opioids really cause your colon to burst? Matthew Perry ...

Fifty new drugs were detected across Europe in 2025 alone, many of them highly potent synthetic opioids. Can the EU’s drugs ...

In the United States, opioid prescription rates have been falling since 2011. But in the same period, the number of opioid-related deaths has increased dramatically. Rising death toll: Fatalities ...