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Alcohol use disorder is a prevalent and major but preventable cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, causing several ...

North Carolina is one of many states receiving funds from a series of national opioid settlements resolving litigation ...

Outpatient low-dose buprenorphine initiation in fentanyl users with opioid use disorder showed both low success and low ...

Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster GLP-1 diabetes drug Ozempic led to improvements in some measures of alcohol use disorder in a ...

The percentage of patients receiving medication for opioid use disorder in federally qualified health centers increased from 2017 to 2023.

Joshua Kaufman, MD, medical director of Behavioral Health and Medical Integration at Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, outlines the progression of treatment approaches for comorbid ...

After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something may finally be working − but what?

A good night’s sleep often sets the stage for a positive day. But for the nearly quarter of American adults struggling with ...

Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people ...

Opioid prescriptions in the emergency department (ED) were associated with small increases in later opioid prescriptions and hospital admissions, found new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical ...

Candidate genetic variants included in a genetic risk algorithm may not meet standards of reasonable clinical efficacy in identifying opioid use disorder risk, according to a study published in JAMA ...