Medications have become our go-to treatments for opioid addiction. Though life-saving, their downsides are underappreciated ...

There are two drugs on the market - semaglutide, marketed under the brand name Wegovy, and tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro.

Researchers at USF Health have discovered a new way opioid receptors can work that may lead to safer pain medications. Their findings show that certain experimental compounds can amplify pain relief ...

The monetary cost of the opioid epidemic in Virginia has reached new heights despite a significant and steady decline in ...

Scientists are racing to redesign how powerful painkillers work, aiming to keep the relief that opioids provide while ...

Chicago and Cook County saw another steep decline in fatal opioid overdoses last year, records show, four years after a ...

The West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force office is based at Lake and Pulaski, what it considers ground zero for the city’s ...

With the recent confirmation of Sarah Bailey as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the National ...

New research reveals previously unknown ways opioid receptors can function, opening the door to safer pain treatments.

For decades, opioids have been the blunt instrument of modern pain care, powerful enough to quiet severe suffering yet risky ...

Groups that help residents battling drug addiction will be able to expand their treatment services after the Livingston ...

Tennessee will receive more than $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds. Experts fear the money isn’t reaching people who ...