Despite the removal of the X-waiver requirement, which once restricted clinicians from prescribing buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD), only a small percentage of primary care clinicians ...
At their bimonthly meeting Monday, Baltimore City Council members introduced legislation designed to improve health care for children and help emergency personnel respond to the opioid crisis.
What Mark Conway says is groundbreaking and life-saving, the mayor’s office says is irresponsible and simplistic.
Pat George, chairman of the Kansas Fights Addiction Act Grant Review Board, gives an update to the Senate Ways and Means ...
Last week, members of the Sackler family, which owns the pharmaceutical company known for selling OxyContin, agreed to a $7.4 ...
A Pennsylvania state lawmaker is pushing for the opioid overdose-reversing drug Narcan to be put in the commonwealth's high ...
School nurses, teachers or other people trained and qualified would be authorized to administer the nasal spray to a student or staff member experiencing symptoms of an opioid overdose.
In 2023, more than 84,000 people in the U.S. died from overdosing on opioids—everything from prescription painkillers to ...
Reversing opioid overdoses in rats using a drug that does not enter the brain prevents the sudden and severe withdrawal symptoms associated with therapeutics that target the central nervous system.
Evans is the former chief operator of the DEA leading initiatives across 240 domestic offices and 93 foreign offices.
From unexpected gender disparities to alarming teen statistics, discover essential facts about opioid medications that every ...
In 2021, more than 107,000 Americans died from overdoses – the most ever recorded – and nearly seven out of 10 deaths involved fentanyl or similar synthetic opioids. In 2022, ...