Medication for opioid use disorder can save lives. But fewer than half of jails surveyed across the country provide it, a new ...

The federal funds will support substance use prevention and treatment efforts, workforce capacity building and access to ...

Rhode Island will receive $11.4 million in federal funding over the next three years to help prevent and treat opioid ...

Semaglutide was linked to a significantly lower risk of overdose than other antidiabetic drugs in patients with type 2 ...

The Kentucky suit against Express Scripts and its related entities says the state should receive $2,000 for each willful ...

Minnesota is seeking a Medicaid waiver to help cover incarcerated people’s health care, including substance use treatment, ...

Despite two-thirds of incarcerated people having substance use disorder, a new study reveals a lack of therapy options.

Daily doses of the drug buprenorphine is a standard treatment for opioid use disorder, and the findings suggest that higher ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky's attorney general has sued Express Scripts, claiming the big pharmacy benefit manager was at the center of an opioid dispensing chain that fueled a deadly addiction crisis ...

Opioid use disorder can be a contributing factor to Americans landing in the nation's prisons and jails, but those inmates ...

Pandemic-era rules, set to expire Dec. 31, enabled telehealth prescriptions of controlled medications like buprenorphine, ...

West Virginia’s new drug czar has a very personal reason for wanting to end the state’s opioid crisis: He was once addicted ...