Opioid antagonists are medications people can take to treat opioid use disorder. They help by reducing withdrawal symptoms, addressing cravings, and managing overdoses. Doctors prescribe opioid ...

A wildly popular diabetes and weight-loss drug may also protect people from overdosing on opioids. That’s the implication of a new study that examined health records of people with type 2 ...

Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of ...

At home in the United States, Purdue Pharma, the drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid crisis through its aggressive marketing of highly addictive pain pills, is bankrupt and facing thousands of ...

But people taking the medication may also be at a lower risk of opioid overdose. Prescriptions for the drug were linked to lower overdose rates among patients with both diabetes and opioid use ...

Prescriptions for naloxone, the medicine that can reverse opioid overdose, increased 669% for those 10-19 years old from 2017 to 2022, according to CDC researchers. Dr. Darien Sutton explains.

The settlement requires the more than 40 states that are participating to use the funds toward stemming overdoses and other repercussions of widespread opioid use. All other states except for ...

In a finding that suggests Ozempic and Wegovy have powers that extend beyond weight loss, a new study finds the medications might also lower people's risk of opioid overdose. People with Type 2 ...

Kentucky’s attorney general is suing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts over its role in “worsening” the state’s opioid crisis. In the complaint filed in state court ...

A new class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which could be more potent than fentanyl, is being found around the world, including in the United States. Claire Zagorski, a harm reduction ...

Sept 16 (Reuters) - The city of Baltimore is scheduled to go to trial this week in its $11 billion lawsuit accusing drug distributors McKesson (MCK.N), opens new tab and Cencora (COR.N), opens new ...

is crowded with markers bearing the names of people lost to the opioid overdose crisis. Too many more are dying. What started four years ago as a memorial to a local woman’s son has grown so ...