opioids

Opioid-related deaths in Cook County have doubled since this time last year, and similar increases are happening across the country....

Dr. Nora Volkow, who heads the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains how emerging science points to added challenges for...

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

The San Francisco-based EHR vendor admitted that it took $1 million in kickbacks from opioid makers in a scheme to...

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...

It's the 10th straight year that DOJ's civil healthcare fraud settlements and judgments have exceeded $2 billion.

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

Nurse autonomy and peer support for patients are some of the components of RWJBarnabas Health's substance use disorder recovery initiative.

OxyContin's makers delayed the reckoning for their role in the opioid crisis by funding think tanks, placing friendly experts on...

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...