Opioid prescriptions have long been used as a medicine for lower back pain in emergency rooms; however, in the past few years ...

Carfentanil is a fentanyl derivative that is 100 times stronger than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine, ...

Health officials in Riverside County have confirmed the county’s first death linked to carfentanil, a synthetic opioid ...

Despite an overall decline in prescribed opioid use in Canada over the past decade, a recent study found that people in ...

HISD students are drinking and smoking less than they were a decade ago. But the use of prescription and illicit medications, ...

President Donald Trump signed bipartisan legislation that attempts to curb illegal flow of fentanyl into the U.S. by ...

Results show that NSAIDs like ibuprofen are now the prescription painkiller of choice, provided to nearly 29% of low back ...

Siloam Mission has just wrapped up the second day of providing a life-saving treatment for drug addiction on Thursday. This ...

President Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act to categorize fentanyl analogues as Schedule 1 drugs, aiming to close ...

Eight opioid manufacturers will divvy up $720 million between states, with Kansas set to receive $5.7 million.

A pilot program initially designed to get immediate after-care help lined up for people who land in UC San Diego Health’s ...

Patients with newly diagnosed musculoskeletal pain who received opioids at higher doses for longer durations had increased risk for OUD.