Approximately 55,000 Philadelphians engage in risky opioid use, according to mini-documentary from VICE News on the heroin epidemic in Philadelphia. Here are three things to know. 1. Individuals who ...
Opioid medications offer people relief from debilitating pain, but these drugs come with dangers: the risk for addiction, miserable withdrawal symptoms and the potential for fatal overdose. In a study ...
A federally funded study published by the American Medical Association (AMA) is adding more evidence that marijuana can serve ...
Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The Food and Drug Administration will soon require prescription opioid manufacturers to include stronger language on the medications’ labels ...
Medicare plans enact few limitations on prescription opioids, despite federal guidelines recommending restrictions on these drugs, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. The ...
A key part of the federal government’s narrative about the epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths in the U.S. has been that it is driven by doctors and other clinicians overprescribing opioid ...
Opioid abuse and addiction, a crisis that has surged across the United States over the past two decades, has resulted in hundreds of thousands of fatal overdoses. There is a sliver of good news: ...
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