With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study explores the harms and benefits of continuing and of discontinuing the long-term prescription of opioid medicines to adults with chronic pain ...
Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to blunt ...
A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...
Glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) like Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and Eli Lilly’s ...
Here to help break down this new painkiller is Dr. Sean Mackey. He’s a Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine at Stanford ...
Opioid use during pregnancy—whether of highly addictive drugs like fentanyl or controlled opioids like buprenorphine—doubles ...
"These medications need to be more readily available," said state Rep. Pat Boy, D-Michigan City, the sponsor. "The lives of ...
Unlike opium, nitazenes and other synthetic opioids can be produced anywhere in the world using precursor chemicals that are ...
When prescribing opioids for acute pain, physicians should be attentive to a patient’s individual risk factors, according to ...
On January 30, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Journavx (suzetrigine) 50 milligram oral tablets, a first-in-class non-opioid ...