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.

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 ...

Lisa Marie Presley wrote about her opioid addiction in her posthumous memoir, "From Here To The Great Unknown." In the book, Presley – who passed away in January 2023 from a small bowel ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...