Nearly 200,000 Florida children now live with relatives — grandparents, aunts, uncles or siblings — after parental substance ...

Calvin Odhiambo, a wellness and addiction specialist at Jaramogi Odinga Hospital, says the medically assisted therapy center ...

Integrated nicotine replacement and behavioral support at opioid agonist treatment clinics helped opioid-dependent patients reduce cigarette use.

Incarcerated people are reporting that the abrupt changes are wreaking havoc on their health and mental well-being.

Philadelphia's street opioid supply—or "dope" market—is constantly changing. As health care workers and researchers who care ...

The City of Fairmont is one step closer to accepting grant applications for opioid funds. City Council on Tuesday night heard the first reading of an ordinance establishing a new ad hoc committee ...

An emergency physician and nurse scientist explain what medetomidine is and how to respond if someone is overdosing on it.

The Dorchester Alcohol and Drug Commission is making sure overdose victims and families have resources available to them with ...

When MultiCare peer support liaison Chandelle Gill speaks to a patient about their addiction, she can see herself.

Researchers have found a unique molecular signature and genes in the orbitofrontal cortex associated with heroin-seeking behavior. A preclinical rodent model implicated a gene called Shisa7 as the key ...

Opioid testing information was unavailable in half of injury death investigations in the U.S. and in 1 in 10 unintentional ...

The study, which was published in the journal Pharmacological Reports, analyzed the impact of four terpenes that are found in ...