After someone lives through an opioid overdose, taking the medication buprenorphine lowers their risk of death if they OD again, a new study found. Buprenorphine is a medication used to treat opioid ...

Indivior PLC INVVY INDV published modeling data examining the competitive interaction between buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid use disorder, and fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, to better ...

The U.S. drug crisis is as bad as it’s ever been, and there are few signs things are getting better. About 110,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2023, about the same as in previous years. Fentanyl, ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Anthony Kelly trudged through southwest Baltimore, each labored footstep a reminder of the roofing accident that left him with chronic pain and a raging opioid addiction several years ...

In the face of unprecedented opioid overdose deaths, the people most at risk can’t reliably access care—including life-saving treatments like methadone and buprenorphine. After decades of efforts by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Benzodiazepine or Z-drug treatment was linked to increased risk for nonfatal drug-related poisoning among ...

In the buprenorphine group, risk of congenital malformations was 50.9 out of 1,000 pregnancies compared with 60.6 per 1,000 in the methadone group, Elizabeth Suarez, PhD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's ...

With Gift Aid, your generous donation of £10 would be worth £12.50 at no extra cost to you. Yes, I want to Gift Aid any donations made to NAM now, in the future and in the past four years I am a UK ...

April 18, 2011 (Washington, DC) — Buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid dependence in pregnancy produces more favorable neonatal outcomes compared with methadone, according to 10 years of data ...

Today, any health-care provider with a license from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to prescribe controlled substances can write a prescription for an opioid painkiller. But that same ...