With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study explores the harms and benefits of continuing and of discontinuing the long-term prescription of opioid medicines to adults with chronic pain ...

Emergency department opioid prescriptions are associated with small increases in hospital admission and subsequent opioid prescription use.

The Drug Enforcement Administration finds Alabamians threw away more than 3,500 pounds of prescription drugs during Drug Take Back Day. That was in October 2024. But drug prevention advocates believe ...

In looking at the profound impact on satiety that GLP-1s have, Penn State College of Medicine Drs. Patrician Grigson and ...

A Chester County med spa doctor ordered unnecessary opioid prescriptions for a patient with a history of addiction in exchange for sex, police said. Fred R. Himmelstein, who owns Leading Edge Medical ...

Emergency clinicians in California increased prescription of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) from 2017 to 2022, ...

A group of four audit reports was released Thursday, part of Auditor Lydia York's continuing audit of organizations that ...

HARRISBURG — A little over two years ago, I had a video call with a small group of mothers whose families were all deeply ...

Co-prescribed stimulants, opioids linked to higher opioid doses Study analyzes millions of U.S. prescriptions over 10 years Date: February 21, 2025 Source: Ohio State University Summary: The ...

A few extra words added to the Indiana Code may help ensure Hoosier students always can access emergency medication at school ...

"Stimulant use before initiating opioids and stimulant co-prescription with opioids are both positively associated with escalating opioid doses compared to other factors," Lee said. Analysis of ...