Reed is a senior member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor-Health and Human Services and helped ensure that $1.575 ...

Paediatricians must prescribe opioids for pain to children when necessary, with recommended precautions to increase safety, ...

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

Along with yoga and physical therapy, "it's probably contributing to it being easier for me to move around," said Thomas, 67. All three are taking the non-opioid pain drug for off-label uses. The only ...

Drugmaker Cephalon had the FDA's approval to market these drugs, old under brand names like Actiq, as a sweetened lozenge on ...

Most of the cases investigated involved fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid now dominant in Philadelphia’s illicit drug ...

Tactics used to persuade U.S. doctors that potent painkillers could be safely prescribed have been used abroad, an ...

Kentucky’s attorney general is suing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts over its role in “worsening” the ...

The city has argued that evidence shows its initiatives in Kensington would help combat a cycle of addiction and overdose ...

Non-opioid alternatives provide satisfactory pain relief, yet too many patients are prescribed opioids after dental ...

Lisa Marie Presley says in her posthumous memoir, 'From Here to the Great Unknown,' out Oct. 8, that she suffered "withdrawal ...

As opioid settlement money rolls into Haywood County, the Board of Commissioners is stockpiling the funds while trying to ...