addiction

15 Arkansas hospitals are the latest of hundreds of other hospitals across the country challenging opioid makers and distributors.

Clinicians urged to step up alcohol screening at regular intervals, intervention.

Electronic medical record defaults may influence emergency department prescribing.

Medicaid expansion may have prevented up to 8,132 opioid overdose deaths in 2015 to 2017 in the 32 states that...

Patients say the diluted medicine doesn't give the same pain relief as a direct injection.

A new report that presents five approaches to hospital-based opioid use disorder care focuses on organizational best practices.

A new report focuses on the four steps in active pain management: screening and prescribing, dispensing and administering, monitoring and...

Nearly 20 times more frequently than other residents.

Hundreds of hospitals have joined in a handful of lawsuits in state courts as their best hope for winning meaningful...

The analysis projects that the costs for the opioid crisis in 2019 will range anywhere from $172 billion to $214...

A suburban county outside of Portland, Oregon, is using data collected from death investigations to prevent suicides.

Non-disciplinary programs monitor doctors and nurses for a number of years and are monitored by addiction specialists and state authorities.