This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Opioid medication has a significant stigma with a risk for dependency and abuse, but certain ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

HCA Healthcare's "Crush the Crisis" program began as a grassroots effort to combat the opioid crisis. The program provides a safe way for people to dispose of unused prescription medications. In 2023, ...

While prescribing peaked more than a decade ago, in 2012, a legacy effect is still underway, with widespread misuse of synthetic opioids (chiefly fentanyl) replacing their prescribed counterparts as ...

Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to provide pain relief, offering greater hope that new classes of these drugs may ...

The mid-1980s was the era of cocaine and marijuana, when “Just Say No” was the centerpiece of the war on drugs and the government’s efforts to stem drug use and addiction. Since then, prescription ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medical cannabis may reduce opioid prescription in adults with chronic pain. More data are needed to determine ...

Aili Langford receives funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council through an Investigator Grant Fellowship. She sits on the Executive Committee of the Australian ...

Nearly all Americans are aware of the U.S. opioid crisis. Overdose deaths increased sixfold between 2003 and 2023, from 12,940 to 79,358. Yearly increases have been especially steep since 2013, when ...

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, is one of the ...