A new study has found that providing medications for opioid addiction to individuals while they are incarcerated can ...

A few weeks ago, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced that it had reached a settlement worth $720 million from drug companies that manufactured pills contributing to the opioid epidemic in ...

Peers are one potential solution to help address the massive gaps in access to substance use and mental health care in the ...

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

Story Highlights • Wexford County commissioners approved a two-year, $100,000 contract with Addiction Treatment Services to ...

Cassidy Webb was 17 when she got her wisdom teeth removed. As is common after a wisdom tooth extraction, she was prescribed hydrocodone—the generic form of Vicodin—to help her manage the pain. But for ...

Opioids, including the best known—morphine, heroin and fentanyl—have been gaining popularity over the last few decades.

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves east ...

There is a black market for buprenorphin, an approved drug for opioid addiction. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. “Before I left the ...

The error - affecting England and Wales - raises concerns about the impact on the government's approach to drug deaths.

Pharmacies in Black and Latino neighborhoods are less likely to dispense buprenorphine — one of the main treatments for ...