Tag: opioid crisis

A clinic has revamped its opioid guidelines after an internal study revealed a trend of overprescribing painkillers after surgery. The Mayo Clinic, a non-profit medical...

The latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides the most recent estimated figures on the opioid crisis, which has been mostly...

Zebrafish addicted to opioids may be key in improving human opioid addiction treatment, a new research reveals. The research, published in the journal Behavioral Brain...

Last week, the American Medical Association (AMA) updated its naloxone prescribing guidance document to encourage all medical professionals in the country to make sure...

As the opioid epidemic officially reaches a ‘national emergency’ status, federal data shows that heroin and other opioids have been increasingly deadly — now,...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price praised China for their efforts toward cracking down on synthetic opioids. At a meeting in Beijing...

Almost 60 percent of adults who misused opioids didn’t have a prescription, and more than 40 percent of those cases involved people who obtained...

DEA agents have seen major success in targeting “egregious” doctors who have put patients at risk with opioid prescribing crimes. While the nationwide epidemic is...

President Trump announced Thursday that America's opioid crisis will become a “national emergency.” The declaration — which was revealed through a response to a reporter’s...

Last week, the Senate confirmed Dr. Jerome Adams as the 20th U.S. Surgeon General. Adams — an anesthesiologist with a biochemistry, a biopsychology, and...