Emotion regulation and pain catastrophizing influenced pain severity and interference in patients taking opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain.

Keep in mind that alcohol and drugs with acetaminophen don't mix. The combination can raise your risk of severe liver damage. Narcotics: Narcotic pain relievers work on pain receptors in the brain ...

Kentucky's attorney general has sued pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts. The lawsuit claims the company was at the ...

A non-opioid drug for pain developed by UK biotech Levicept, with a new mechanism of action, has shown it can reduce pain associated with osteoarthritis in a phase 2 trial. Neurotrophin-3 (NT-3 ...

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

A new look into addiction treatment availability in the U.S. criminal justice system reveals that fewer than half (43.8%) of 1,028 jails surveyed across the nation offered any form of medication ...

Dilaudid (hydromorphone) and morphine are two of many opioid medications (previously called narcotics) that healthcare providers may prescribe to people in moderate to severe pain. They work on the ...

There’s no room for mood- and mind-altering drugs in recovery.’” Suboxone contains an opioid called buprenorphine. But it acts differently than opioid pain medications do, Frenz said.

Americans can see the rise — and fall — of legal opioids entering their community. A database maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration that tracks every single pain pill sold in the ...

Just 44 percent of jails offer incarcerated people with opioid use disorder medications like methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone to treat addiction, according to a new analysis of 1,028 jails ...

Alternative drug therapies initiated during the admission were lorazepam for anxiety/muscular tension which helped significantly resolve the pain caused by jaw protrusion, thought to be a physical ...