COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Ohio continues to battle an opioid epidemic, Ohio lawmakers are working to give people battling an addiction a new tool to break the cycle. House Bill 300 would set up a pilot ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Inside emergency rooms, physicians are faced with patients around the clock, many of them facing life-or-death situations. Now, a life-saving service is expanding to three ...

The opioid epidemic continues to rage across the country – and Pennsylvania is not immune from it. It’s been seven years since it was first designated a public health emergency, and it has continued ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- On Feb. 17, Broome County Sheriff Fred Akshar wrote a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul asking her to add another nasal spray for overdoses to the police arsenal. Naloxone, also ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Doctors and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health have developed an artificial intelligence tool to ensure some of our most ...

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found that tailored feedback to surgeons dramatically reduces excessive opioid prescriptions for common surgeries ...

The search for a safer opioid has followed pain medicine for decades. Doctors still need strong drugs for surgery, major ...

New Monash University research has found that a free, interactive online tool can help people taking prescription opioids for ...

Imagine the scene. You walk into a room to find your loved one unconscious on the floor, barely breathing. You know your loved one has been using prescription painkillers or heroin and believe s/he ...

After Maryland became one of the top five states for opioid-related deaths in 2017, Annapolis-based Anne Arundel Health System created a formula to measure opioid overprescribing within its EHR system ...