Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1148-1152. Health care organizations around the nation have been working to reduce the use of meperidine as a first-line agent for pain management. Despite the ...

Thousands of babies have been born hooked on drugs in England over the past decade, new data has revealed. More than 1,000 ...

Highlighting the fight against the HIV positive and AIDS cases, the chief minister said that the Tripura State AIDS Control Society (TSACS) has opened opioid substitution therapy (OST) in ...

The centres will now focus on de-addiction from pharma opioids, although opioid substitution therapy will continue to be used to wean addicts off other narcotic substances, said sources.

Friends and colleagues from The Lighthouse paid a special tribute to Shaun O'Brien, a support worker who passed away suddenly last December.

This may not be the case, though. For example, a phase 3 clinical trial of one recently-launched DAA in drug users on opioid substitution therapy found that cure rates were 91.5% – comparable to ...

A new study led by researchers at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health found that adults with newly diagnosed sciatica ...

Patients with opioid use disorder enrolled in Medicaid were less likely to receive telehealth care after the COVID-19 ...

Having shown last week that its opioid alternative can reduce post-surgery pain, Tris Pharma is back with another slice of ...

The Sacklers will no longer have liability protection from future lawsuits. The company and the once-prominent family behind the drug OxyContin agreed Thursday to increase their financial ...

The $7.4 billion deal with the OxyContin maker creates a controversial legal-defense fund for the Sacklers. Massachusetts residents who lost relatives to opioid overdoses expressed elation ...