A study published in the journal Addiction has found that people with opioid or alcohol use disorder (OUD, AUD) who take ...

Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of ...

Lisa Marie Presley wrote about her opioid addiction in her posthumous memoir, "From Here To The Great Unknown." In the book, Presley – who passed away in January 2023 from a small bowel ...

Prescriptions for naloxone, the medicine that can reverse opioid overdose, increased 669% for those 10-19 years old from 2017 to 2022, according to CDC researchers. Dr. Darien Sutton explains.

Factors possibly associated with previous opioid exposure included a history of neonatal intensive care unit admission (n = 96, 24%), PICU admission (n = 81, 20%), or surgical operation (n = 161 ...

“We discovered that we have limited data on youth from 10 to 21 who are severely impacted not only by the opioid crisis but high-potency marijuana.” Frequent marijuana users often have trouble ...

By and large, Americans have understood this as an explosion in opioid use, one that reflected and expressed a kind of national despair, particularly visible among the country’s left-behind places.

Oct. 10, 2024 -- Did you hear the recent news that Ozempic, the popular weight loss and diabetes drug, may lower the risk of opioid overdose, according to a new study? The finding may be ...

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In a finding that suggests Ozempic and Wegovy have powers that extend beyond weight loss, a new study finds the medications might also lower people's risk of opioid overdose. People with Type 2 ...

But people taking the medication may also be at a lower risk of opioid overdose. Prescriptions for the drug were linked to lower overdose rates among patients with both diabetes and opioid use ...

The Measuring Opioid Tolerance Induced by Fentanyl (or morphine) study was conducted in the seven PICUs participating in Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network. Institutional ...