Arizona is set to receive up to $68.5 million for opioid abatement, with payments anticipated to begin early next year.

In the study, published Thursday in the scientific journal Addiction, researchers found people with opioid or alcohol use disorder who take Ozempic or similar medications appear to have a 40% ...

In addition, some of the excipients used to prepare oral modified-release opioid products, particularly talc, may lead to serious complications if these products are parenterally abused.

A study published recently in the journal Addiction shows that people with substance-use disorders who take these weight-loss drugs are less likely to experience opioid overdose or alcohol ...

Marshall is a professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. The opioid and overdose crisis is a national tragedy, claiming more than 1 million lives since 1999.

noting the percentage change in the number of opioid patients over the study period, changes in the average strength of the daily dose of morphine equivalents (the "morphine equivalent dose" or ...

Roxybond (oxycodone hydrochloride) immediate-release 10 mg tablet for the management of pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic.

In 2022, Walmart paid $3.1 billion to settle nationwide lawsuits regarding opioid prescriptions. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

One of JD Vance’s key policy advisers, Aaron Kofsky, has for years posted extensively on Reddit about using a variety of drugs, including cocaine and opiates, under the username PsychoticMammal.

Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, made by Denmark’s Novo Nordisk, can reduce rates of opioid and alcohol abuse by up to 50%, according to a new study that supports expectations the drugs can ...

For patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD), prescriptions of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and/or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 ...

Frank Barry is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board covering national affairs. He is the author of the new book, "Back Roads and and Better Angels: A Journey Into the ...