The exponential rise in opioid prescriptions by pharmaceutical companies, despite awareness of their addictive nature, has led to a staggering toll of over 760,000 lives lost to drug overdoses since ...

New York State has won more than $2 billion from settlements with companies involved in manufacturing, distributing and selling opioids. Suffolk County, where I practice medicine, has already received ...

The emergency department (ED) is an ideal place to have opioid addicts get started on buprenorphine therapy ― and the road to recovery, new research suggests. In a study conducted at Yale–New Haven ...

Patients who are prescribed higher daily doses of the medication buprenorphine for opioid use disorder are significantly more likely to stay in treatment. Those on 17 to 24 milligrams averaged 190 ...

Children born to mothers who used buprenorphine for opioid addiction during pregnancy do not have a greater risk of ...

Adults with opioid use disorder who receive a higher daily dose of the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine may have a lower risk of subsequent emergency department visits or use of ...

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...