A central challenge in the opioid crisis in the US has been the underuse of lifesaving treatment and harm reduction programs. Conventional explanations focus on limited access to care when services ...

Health officials in British Columbia are warning drug users about a new laboratory-made opioid that's made its way into the ...

Medications that target depression, anxiety and poor sleep could help treat pain without opioids’ addictive properties ...

Undertreatment of withdrawal symptoms has been associated with early patient-directed disc ...

Can a psychedelic drug with heavy side-effects and anecdotal evidence as a treatment for addiction become a wonder drug for veterans facing opioid substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorders?

A recent study in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine suggests that some psychiatric medications could serve as ...

NEW illicit substances that risk “life‑threatening poisoning” are being discovered every week in Europe, its drugs watchdog ...

People who take oxycodone need to be careful when also taking antifungal drugs or drinking grapefruit juice. Why? Because both the juice and the drug can result in abnormally high, perhaps dangerously ...