These records provide an unprecedented look at the surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic, which resulted in more than 210,000 overdose deaths during the 14-year ...

Emotion regulation and pain catastrophizing influenced pain severity and interference in patients taking opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain.

In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online Sept. 30 in Pediatrics, ...

The School of Dentistry at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) earned the first National Institutes of Health grant under its new Center for Pain ...

Baltimore City has settled with Walgreens over the pharmacy chain's role in the opioid crisis, the mayor's office announced ...

ORLANDO -- The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) rolled out its first clinical practice guideline detailing evidence-based ...

Doctors prescribe opioid receptor agonist medications to treat chronic pain in some people. These drugs attach to proteins in the brain called opioid receptors, which help block pain signals and ...

New guidelines for prescription of opioids to treat acute pain to children in outpatient settings from AAP aim to give ...

Lollipops, lozenges and mouth sprays containing the addictive drug never should have been approved in the first place. | ...

An emerging type of minimally invasive spine surgery reduces the use of pain medication in patients' recovery compared to ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has published its first clinical guideline for pediatricians on prescribing opioids, ...

An ICT investigation found that Canada’s health care system helped fund a sharp rise in opiate use among younger generations ...