Medication use for opioid use disorder has increased but remains low, and methadone and buprenorphine are linked to reduced risk for opioid overdose, a new study shows.

City officials announced the takedown of three drug organizations in West Baltimore, including the group allegedly ...

"Even when they survive, they can suffer oxygen deprivation that causes brain injury, heart complications and long-term ...

The Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation, announced on Thursday, Dec. 11, the Overdose Death ...

Astatewide initiative to provide opioid overdose reversal kits to every public school in the state of Georgia launched last ...

Ozempic may lower the risk of opioid overdose in patients with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests, the latest research to find a positive connection between the diabetes drug and another unrelated ...

Prison officials are trying to reduce the risk of overdose by providing medications for opioid use disorder before release.

Knowing that naloxone works by stalling the µ-opioid receptor in an early, latent state suggests that molecules that can bind more tightly or more selectively to this form of the receptor could be ...

Actor and comedian Andy Dick has suffered an “apparent overdose,” according to TMZ, but he was able to speak to the ...

Every public school in Georgia will soon have an opioid overdose reversal kit within its walls. It’s the result of an effort between the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental ...

Illinois public libraries authorized to stock and administer opioid overdose reversal agents like naloxone under new IDPH ...