However, the opioid pathway, a heavily studied physiologic pathway inextricably intertwined with behaviour and reward, rarely receives attention within psychiatric practice. Although the opioid system ...

An existing drug currently used to treat glaucoma, altitude sickness, and seizures may also have the potential to prevent ...

For years, buprenorphine—one of the primary medications used to treat opioid use disorder—has been a critical bridge to recovery, helping to reduce illicit drug use and overdose deaths. But with the ...

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is trying out new strategies to tackle the city's drug crisis after seeing a ...

Treatment numbers rose over the 2010s as the opioid crisis became prominent and also included increases in buprenorphine, an easier to access medication ...

Drug overdose deaths have been dropping precipitously at the local and national level, new statistics show. But the data does not capture the intensified symptoms complicating withdrawal management in ...