“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 ...

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.

"It was too painful to be sober." Lisa Marie Presley's posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, is giving fans an inside look at her struggles with addiction for the first time. Presley ...

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

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 ...

A wildly popular diabetes and weight-loss drug may also protect people from overdosing on opioids. That’s the implication of a new study that examined health records of people with type 2 ...

It has an opioid-like effect that laborers in the region use to ease pain and work longer hours. In small doses, kratom has a stimulant effect, but when taken in higher doses, it acts as a sedative.

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 ...

This particular strain is celebrated for its distinctive red veins, indicating its high potency and effectiveness ... This alkaloid interacts with opioid receptors in the brain, mimicking the ...

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.