Our bodies are always talking to us. When we are hungry, our stomachs growl. When we’re cold, we shiver. When we feel pain, ...

At Beyond Addiction symposium at UAlbany, Dr. Joshua Lynch detailed how the MATTERS app connects New Yorkers to telemedicine ...

Opioids are a class of drug that is either derived from the opium poppy plant or is made in a lab to mimic the poppy plant. They directly affect the brain and spinal cord and provide pain relief and ...

Opiate addiction is a growing concern across the globe, affecting millions of individuals and their families. While many are aware of the dangers associated with illegal drugs, fewer people recognize ...

When someone in your life struggles with opioid use, it rarely stays between them and their drug of choice. The effects ...

DORSET has seen a nine-fold increase during the year in the use of a drug to help with opiate addiction. The figure is being reported to the county’s joint public health board at a meeting on February ...

Cooper Health expands its Bupe FIRST program to Newark and Paterson, bringing lifesaving buprenorphine treatment to more ...

I wrote this the day before actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died from a heroin overdose, or as screenwriter and recovering addict Aaron Sorkin more accurately put it, “He did not die from an overdose of ...

SAFER PRESCRIPTION Pot’s pain-reducing properties could help address maladies that lead to opioid addiction. (Photo by NMK-Studio, Shutterstock) Despite a relative lack of scientific studies of ...

In a new essay for The Huffington Post, Jamie Lee Curtis opens up about the opiate addiction she and millions of other Americans — reportedly including Prince — have struggled with. “I too, waited ...