Though more than 200 million opioid pain prescriptions are dispensed each year, prescriptions for drugs that treat addiction are not so easy to come by. Only doctors who have gone through training can ...

If a person has major surgery chances are they were prescribed opioids. Hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and many others are all different types of opioids typically prescribed by doctors to treat ...

A recent study explodes the myth that the risk of addiction to prescription opioids exists only among patients abusing their opioids. Until recently, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) ...

Opioid overdoses kill more than three Arizonans every day. Luckily, we have an effective treatment: buprenorphine and methadone, collectively referred to as medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).

Even people taking opioid medications as prescribed are at greater risk of becoming addicted than they or their doctors suspect, a speaker at a University of Richmond conference on addiction said ...

An Angels team doctor testified in court that he prescribed 600 opioid pills to Eric Kay over a period of three-plus years. Ronald Martinez / Getty Images SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The opioid epidemic has claimed too many lives—and for many, it starts with something as routine as a prescription after surgery or injury. In Iowa, however, a growing ...

Imagine a patient named Rosa tells you she wakes up night after night in a drenching sweat after having very realistic dreams of smoking fentanyl. The dreams seem crazy to her. Three months ago, newly ...