The Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) this week announced an investment of more than $8 million to expand or ...

Despite the removal of the X-waiver requirement, which once restricted clinicians from prescribing buprenorphine for opioid ...

This study evaluated a structured support program to help small, rural primary care clinics improve their capacity to provide ...

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with NaphCare, Inc., has announced the expansion of its ...

The volume of those who received medications for opioid use disorder at federally qualified health centers more than doubled over a recent 6-year span, results from a cross-sectional study showed.Yet, ...

Spokane County is considering expanding its opioid response by $650,000 after one program recently saw a roughly 85% success ...

The researchers found that the 15 candidate genes accounted for 0.40 percent of the variation in OUD risk, while age and sex accounted for 3.27 percent of the variation. Using the 15 variants as ...

In 2023, more than 84,000 people in the U.S. died from overdosing on opioids—everything from prescription painkillers to ...

The opioid crisis has touched nearly every demographic in our society. One area that doesn’t get enough attention is the toll ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug ...

(HealthDay News) — A gap persists between the need for and receipt of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment among U.S. individuals, according to a research letter published online Jan. 6 in JAMA ...

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced Montana will receive over $16 million from a settlemtn with Purdue Pharma ...