When you have a mild headache or muscle ache, an over-the-counter pain reliever is usually enough to make you feel better. But if your pain is more severe, your doctor might recommend something ...

New medications are in the pipeline that could help people win their battles against addictive substances, including opioids ...

Researchers at USF Health have discovered a new way opioid receptors can work that may lead to safer pain medications. Their ...

A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it ...

The Food and Drug Administration is attempting to put a spotlight on the potential risks associated with prolonged use of opioid pain medications by mandating changes to the way those products are ...

In cases of opioid use disorder, short-term medically managed withdrawal (commonly known as detox) and long-term rehabilitation treatments that don’t incorporate continued use of buprenorphine or ...

For decades, opioids have been the blunt instrument of modern pain care, powerful enough to quiet severe suffering yet risky ...

This illustration image shows tablets of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. A novel non-opioid treatment for post-surgical pain, suzetrigine, is set to enter the market in 2025. Its uptake could be ...

Since February 2023, Baltimore County has received more than $29 million in various legal settlements from opioid ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a new type of prescription pain medication for adults to treat moderate to severe acute pain. The drug, called Journavx (suzetrigine) ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that is a non-opioid and carries less risks of addiction than opioids. Journavx works ...

Pregnant women who reported opioid use disorder were more likely to face serious health complications, as were their children ...