The statewide committee that oversees Pennsylvania’s opioid settlement trust fund is raising concerns about how Washington County is handing out its grants, calling the process “problematic” as it ...

A new UGA study suggests opioid use may weaken the immune system by altering gut bacteria, leaving patients more vulnerable ...

Approximately 43% of patients aged 65 years or older with rheumatic disease filled at least one opioid prescription in 2021, ...

In Canada, thousands of people use contaminated street opioids. To reduce overdoses, the country has been experimenting for ...

Opioid dose and frequency were not associated with severity of noncancer pain in individuals receiving opioids.

Attorneys for the Angels aimed to paint a longer arc of drug and alcohol abuse by Tyler Skaggs in the wrongful-death lawsuit ...

New research from the University of Georgia suggests that opioid use could make patients more vulnerable to infections.

Individuals with chronic opioid use, whether addicted or not, show heightened learning from negative reinforcement, suggesting that avoidance behavior may underlie both the develo ...

Megan Harrigan hurried around the Union Street Brick Church in Bangor in September, gathering clients and bringing them to the back corner of the church where there was a makeshift clinic of folding t ...

Brendan Saloner ([email protected]), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Pooja Lagisetty, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Access and scale are two sides of the same coin. Whereas ...

Suzanne Nielsen receives funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the Victorian and Commonwealth governments, The National Centre for Healthy Ageing, and the Ian ...

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