Access to medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) increased substantially among Medicaid beneficiaries across nearly every U.S. state between 2019 and 2023, according to a new study led by ...

After years of continuously rising opioid overdoses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths decreased 3% in 2023, the first annual decrease since 2018. A new ...

Drug poisoning rates rose, especially when used with other prescriptions ...

Overlooked plant compounds may quietly hold new clues for treating some of the most challenging forms of pain.

The research that generated the most political attention came from Stanford, where a prospective observational study examined ...

People who take gabapentinoids, a medication prescribed increasingly frequently worldwide, particularly for chronic pain, ...