Emergency department treatment with buprenorphine puts people struggling with opioid use disorder on path to long-term recovery
Patients who struggle with opioid addiction and who are treated by California emergency department physicians are remarkably ...
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts Awards Grant to Tradeoffs to Expand Reporting on Opioid and Overdose Crisis
The Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) has awarded a $65,702 grant to Tradeoffs, a nonprofit health care news organization, to support new reporting on the opioid and overdose crisis. This ...
Non-opioid pain relief can save lives in Florida | Column
Congress and the Florida Legislature must eliminate cost disparities between opioid and non-opioid options.
Smithtown launches task force to tackle opioid crisis
In February, the Smithtown Town Board approved the formation of the Opioid and Addiction Task Force. The group will work with ...
Hormones may drive the differences in opioid misuse between men and women
The opioid epidemic has claimed more than half a million lives in the U.S. since 1999, about three-quarters of them men, according to the National Institutes of Health.