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Opioids are a class of medications mostly used to treat pain. While they can improve your quality of life, opioids can be highly addictive. Although the words are often used interchangeably, there’s a ...

Among patients with opioid overdose, bradycardia on initial vital signs was associated with a higher likelihood of xylazine ...

New medications are in the pipeline that could help people win their battles against addictive substances, including opioids ...

Despite irrefutable pharmacological evidence of the wide range in individuals' metabolism of opioid drugs, states continue to impose "one-size-fits-none" laws. For example, Massachusetts, apparently ...

Early opioid withdrawal symptoms include restlessness, anxiety, insomnia, and muscle aches. Late opioid withdrawal symptoms are more serious and involve vomiting, diarrhea, and a rapid pulse.

BOSTON – Mass and Cass – the Boston intersection that serves as the epicenter of the commonwealth’s substance abuse and homelessness problem – is the most visible example of a statewide problem that ...

This illustration image shows tablets of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. A novel non-opioid treatment for post-surgical pain, suzetrigine, is set to enter the market in 2025. Its uptake could be ...