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

Patients with opioid use disorder who receive higher doses of a drug to treat their addiction are more likely to ...

Dr. Stephen Loyd, who has been treating patients with substance use disorder since he got sober two decades ago, says ...

The e-commerce giant is one of the biggest U.S. employers to respond to government pressure to make overdose medicine more ...

The results suggest Ozempic could potentially become a new alternative treatment for opioid use disorder, which could help ...

Just 44 percent of jails offer incarcerated people with opioid use disorder medications like methadone, buprenorphine or ...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) said it plans to stock all of its North American facilities with the opioid overdose reversal medication ...

Researchers have identified a potential new approach to address the opioid overdose epidemic. Semaglutide was shown to lower opioid overdoses in people with opioid-use disorder and type 2 diabetes.

A new study suggests semaglutide drugs like Ozempic, used for type 2 diabetes, may lower the risk of opioid overdose in ...

Old newspaper boxes are being repurposed into containers that distribute Narcan, an emergency treatment to reverse drug ...