While much of the attention swirling around the opioid problem in the United States has focused on younger Americans and ...

Laws requiring physicians to check a patient’s drug history in state databases help lower opioid abuse incidence, according to a paper in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy by Ithaca, ...

LAS VEGAS -- Opioid abuse was tied to excess healthcare costs of over $10,000 for the 1 year following the initial abuse diagnosis, researchers reported here. In a review of a large healthcare cost ...

A recent study by WalletHub shows Arkansas ranked second in the US for drug abuse, with high rates of opioid prescriptions, ...

The Lake County Opioid Awareness initiative will hold its next community meeting at 3 p.m. May 21 in the lower-level conference room of the Lake County Administrative Building, 105 Main St. in ...

Could sex hormones explain the difference in opioid use and misuse between genders? Since 1999, the American opioid epidemic has killed more than half a million people, and according to the National ...

People who abuse opioids are more likely to be hospitalized for sepsis and die, even if they are young and otherwise healthy, according to new research. Researchers analyzed 6.7 million U.S. hospital ...

On a global level, it is estimated that 20% of adults suffer from pain, and 10% are being newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year (Goldberg and McGee 2011). The presence of chronic pain afflicts ...

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey -- The nation's addiction to opioids is part of a crisis plaguing communities across America and particularly the Tri-State Area. According to the National Institute on Drug ...

Are Abuse-Deterrent Drugs Less Addictive? Medscape: In a national survey [1] of internists, family physicians, and general practitioners, nearly one half stated that they believed abuse-deterrent ...

Although prescription drug abuse has often been seen as a rural problem, urban hospitals saw 26 percent more prescription opioid abuse cases than rural hospitals, according to Jay Unick, PhD, of the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on Thursday to help drug companies develop generic versions of approved opioids with abuse-deterrent formulations while ensuring that ...