Forty-three percent of Americans say the prescription drug abuse is a serious issue, up 10 percent from 2016, according to a survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The ...

Objectives: Prescription opioid abuse and addiction are serious problems with growing societal and medical costs, resulting in billions of dollars of excess costs to private and governmental health ...

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey -- The nation's addiction to opioids is part of a crisis plaguing communities across America and particularly the Tri-State Area. According to the National Institute on Drug ...

Every day in America more than 50 people die from an overdose of prescription pain medication. Some people who start out abusing pain pills later turn to heroin, which claims another 29 lives each day ...

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Having shown last week that its opioid alternative can reduce post-surgery pain, Tris Pharma is back with another slice of clinical data to show that the drug is less likely to be abused. The phase 1 ...

The opioid epidemic has affected hospitals, both clinically and financially, for almost 30 years. More than1,000 acute care hospitals will receive a share of $700 million as part of the settlement of ...

Supplying Narcan at the library is a “no-brainer,” according to Ellen Riggsbee, the marketing and communications manager for ...

University of Iowa researchers in the Carver College of Medicine discovered a commonly used drug could treat opioid use ...