TAKING DELICATE sips, as if it were hot tea, it takes the elderly patient three goes to finish her shot glass of bright liquid. The cherry flavour is the best, her nurse explains, but it is still ...

Cooper Health expands its Bupe FIRST program to Newark and Paterson, bringing lifesaving buprenorphine treatment to more ...

Opiate addiction is a growing concern across the globe, affecting millions of individuals and their families. While many are aware of the dangers associated with illegal drugs, fewer people recognize ...

The mobile unit visits Philadelphia neighborhoods that have high rates of fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses. Jeff Fusco/The Conversation US, CC BY-ND A mobile team offering medication treatment to ...

WASHINGTON — The number of new monthly prescriptions for medications that treat opioid addiction nearly doubled over the past two years, according to new data, while prescriptions for opioid ...

Medication-assisted treatment are the gold standard for treating opioid addiction. Yet despite its proven track record, ...

At Beyond Addiction symposium at UAlbany, Dr. Joshua Lynch detailed how the MATTERS app connects New Yorkers to telemedicine ...

The opioid epidemic is still primarily a problem among younger people. But as it has worn on, a change has been happening that’s largely gone unnoticed.

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

You're reading Part 5 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...

As an emergency department physician, I have been on the front lines of the opioid overdose crisis, treating countless people — young and old, housed and unhoused — experiencing an overdose or ...

Los Angeles County jails pared back access to life-saving opioid addiction treatment this fall during one of the system’s ...