Suboxone is a brand-name version of the generic drugs buprenorphine ... Buprenorphine, the main ingredient in Suboxone, is considered an opiate. These drugs, including legal drugs like oxycodone ...

A number of doctors have voiced their concern over the sixth-most prescribed drug in the country. And in a very darkly ironic ...

A mobile team offering medication treatment to people with opioid use disorder showed promise in getting patients in ...

The Highline School District trained school nurses and other staff to administer Narcan in the case of an opioid overdose.

Two drug distribution companies at one point controlled 60% of the prescription opioid market in the Baltimore area, sending ...

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

A new study suggests that semaglutide, a blockbuster anti-obesity GLP-1 drug, could help people cut down on addictive behavior and prevent opioid overdose.

In a recent paper published in Liver Transplantation, researchers report that the use of opioid pain medications may play ... with the highest use of opioid pain medications while on the waiting list.

Medical researchers have found that people who take the semaglutide-based drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may be less likely to die ...

According to data collected by the health district, 84.4% of ORTC patients use Medicaid insurance, 5.1% use Medicare and 10.5 ...

People prescribed semaglutide, which is sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy ... that the study does not prove that the medication curbs opioid overdoses. “We can only say semaglutide ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County commissioners on Thursday named a committee to make recommendations on how to spend the county’s allocations from the National Opioid Settlement. While some ...