How does your doctor actually prescribe opioid medication? Why is it hard to get a refill? What are the best solutions to help patients with pain?

During the opioid crisis in the United States, acute pain management has remained a persistent challenge for both patients and clinicians.

Pain is an epidemic in search of a treatment. If a particular pain persists for more than 3 months, it is considered chronic. In the USA, about 20% of adults suffer from chronic pain, and that pain ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Bryan Kubit entered the Cuyahoga County jail last summer, he expected it to lead to a familiar cycle of prison, release, drug use, arrest, repeat. Instead, after admitting his ...

Access to medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) in the pharmacy is internationally accepted; however, in the US, methadone treatment for OUD can only be provided by opioid treatment programs (OTPs ...

For a nation battered by opioids and haunted by the failures of big pharma, 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) might seem like a molecule worth studying. Instead, regulators are preparing to bury it. The FDA ...

How to choose which nonprofits applying for money coming from lawsuits against the manufacturers of opioid pain medication triggering West Virginia’s addiction and overdose epidemic was the topic of a ...