Baltimore’s new BCORE program, a partnership between the city and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will receive ...

A survey aims to assess knowledge gaps, attitudes, and beliefs about opioid use in older adults among new and veteran nurses. Recently graduated nurses show greater knowledge of opioid use in older ...

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Talk about a dose of disappointment. A new analysis suggests that millions of Americans with chronic pain are being prescribed an opioid that does little to ease their suffering. To make matters worse ...

What if, during the mass overdose event in Penn North this summer, word had circulated of a bad batch out there, so other buyers might beware? What if on any given day, rather than injecting alone, ...

Jonathan Larsen receives funding from the Pennsylvania Opioid Misuse and Addiction Abatement Trust. He is the Chair of the Haverford Township Democratic Committee. Amy Yeung receives funding from the ...

Between 2011 and 2022 the number of opioid-related deaths in England and Wales was more than 50% higher than figures given by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), according to a new report from ...

Nitazenes—a class of highly potent synthetic opioids—are rapidly emerging as a major contributor to the overdose crisis, according to a Pain Medicine review published today by authors from Vanderbilt ...

The Morristown Council has directed $100,000 in funds obtained through opioid settlement funds to a local nonprofit providing treatment and housing for women struggling with substance use and ...

The DEA is warning that a new deadly drug 100 times more powerful than fentanyl was discovered in Long Island during a narcotics raid last month — and could already be in the streets for sale. A new ...

Chronic pain is one of the most common and expensive health problems in the nation, affecting an estimated one in five U.S. adults and costing around $600 billion each year in medical expenses, lost ...

In 2019, seven county correctional facilities (jails) in Massachusetts initiated pilot programs to provide all Food and Drug Administration–approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). This ...