Alternatives to opioids are desperately needed to better treat moderate to severe acute pain, but to date, we’ve seen few ...

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 7-OH is 13 times more potent than morphine. Yet, in many states across ...

New research shows adults 65 and older are one of the fastest-growing groups affected as synthetic opioids drive most U.S. overdose deaths.

Consegna Pharma, Inc. ("Consegna" or the "Company") today announced that it has received written responses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding its Type C meeting for CP217, the ...

Fentanyl is the primary cause of drug overdose deaths in the US, and seniors are at increased risk due to slower drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The monetary cost of the opioid epidemic in Virginia has reached new heights despite a significant and steady decline in deadly ...

It's clear to me, as a public health doctor and journalist, that there have been fewer news stories on the opioid epidemic in recent months, in print, online, and on the radio and TV. While I don't ...

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway's "vice squad" has been tackling many of the state's gray vice products, ...

Kudos to the Washington County commissioners. In a rare unanimous vote on a major decision by the politically divided three-person board, the commissioners have appointed a committee of seven ...

With all the news about the opioid epidemic, there's an unexpected group in trouble: older people. In fact, an analysis of government data shows more than 500,000 Medicare recipients received high ...

In January 2017, the CDC reported more than 64,000 annual deaths related to drug overdose — a 21 percent increase from 2016 alone.1 To put this statistic into perspective, the number of drug overdose ...

A new scholarship program will benefit Lehigh County residents who have experienced personal hardships and/or incarceration ...