More good news in the battle against opioid addiction. Scientists have reopened research into a class of opioids that were ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a novel, highly potent opioid that shows potential as ...

Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that quiets pain at its source in the brain—without the addictive risks of opioids. Using AI to map how pain is processed, they created a targeted “off ...

Suzetrigine prevents pain signals from reaching the brain and doesn't give an opioid-like high, making it non-addictive—but it's expensive. Reading time 2 minutes To treat acute pain, doctors in the U ...

A recent study explodes the myth that the risk of addiction to prescription opioids exists only among patients abusing their opioids. Until recently, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) ...

Opioid addiction has been a persistent problem for the state. According to the South Dakota Department of Health, an average ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. ( South Dakota Searchlight) — The latest round of funding from a nationwide opioid settlement will pay for a mobile street medicine clinic, addiction treatment training for primary ...

The clinics that control methadone are driving people out of treatment and back to a toxic supply of street drugs.

General Hospital‘s Jacob Young opened up for the first time about secretly battling an addiction for years. “I had some ...

Boxer Michael Corder’s life was almost destroyed by police raids and overdoses. But now his recovery is helping hundreds of young people facing similar demons fight back.