Around two-thirds of people relapse within 30 days after being discharged from residential treatment. An app could help them ...
The opioid crisis has touched nearly every demographic in our society. One area that doesn’t get enough attention is the toll ...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced Montana will receive over $16 million from a settlemtn with Purdue Pharma ...
In 2023, the CDC reported 105,007 drug overdose deaths with 90% involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl. "The opioid epidemic, and specifically the rise of fentanyl dependence, presents an urgent ...
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 ...
Spokane County is considering expanding its opioid response by $650,000 after one program recently saw a roughly 85% success ...
Last week, members of the Sackler family, which owns the pharmaceutical company known for selling OxyContin, agreed to a $7.4 ...
The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with NaphCare, Inc., has announced the expansion of its ...
The Robert C. Byrd Clinic (RCBC) announced the launch of a new rural community health initiative. According to a press ...
The volume of those who received medications for opioid use disorder at federally qualified health centers more than doubled ...
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.