Sarah Richards never imagined she’d end up struggling with pain medication. After a car accident left her with chronic back pain, prescription opioids seemed like a lifeline. Three months later, she ...

One such evening about four years ago, Charmyra Harrell arrived there limping, her right leg swollen and covered in sores.

Muse Treatment Alcohol & Drug Rehab Los Angeles has published a new educational resource that explains how opioid receptors ...

The more flexible approach some doctors are taking clashes with traditional views of how to treat people with addiction.

The FDA approved prescription suzetrigine (Journavx) 50 mg oral tablets, a first-in-class non-opioid analgesic, to treat moderate to severe acute pain in adults, the agency announced Thursday.

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy ap ...

The treatment, known as a femoral nerve block, acts as a local anaesthetic and can serve as an alternative to opioid ...

Strengthened warning labels about the risks of addiction will be placed on benzodiazepines such as Valium (diazepam), which ...

A new Washington state hotline is helping connect people dealing with drug addiction to local treatment options. The ...

The problems with pain medications are not new ones. The epidemic that many talk about in terms of opioid addiction is real. Many states in response to this problem have created new guidelines and ...

A new kind of pain medication has been approved for sale by the Food and Drug Administration. It is being touted as an alternative to opioids. It works differently, and it is not addictive. NPR's Yuki ...

D spent a decade recovering from an addiction that started when he fell off a ladder, got injured and was prescribed opioid pain pills.