A recent study by North Carolina State University exposes a critical shortfall in opioid treatment availability within the ...

The pharma is seeking full approval for its anticoagulation reversal drug Andexxa, which the FDA granted accelerated approval ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Zurnai ™, the first nalmefene HCl autoinjector for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose in adults an ...

Narcan is the only reversal drug distributed free of charge to organizations in state, but it's not the only reversal drug ...

Seven months ago, Cindy Jacquet came home after running errands with her daughter to find her son's car parked in front of ...

Protonitazene, a synthetic opioid three times stronger than fentanyl, was connected to an overdose in Stevenson Ranch. Dealer ...

Opioid agonists are the gold standard for the treatment of OUD but have not been able to solve the opioid crisis.

New litigation centered on increasing access to substance-use disorder treatment in jails and prisons is helping to reduce ...

Opioid overdose deaths have decreased for 12 months, with 70,655 predicted deaths through June 2024, down from 86,401 in June ...

AstraZeneca has ended work on an opioid use disorder (OUD) drug after the orexin 1 receptor antagonist demonstrated a ...

The FDA approved the first over-the-counter drug, naloxone nasal spray, last year to help reduce drug overdose deaths.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon who criticized the Biden administration’s Covid response, to lead the FDA. “FDA has lost the trust of Americans, and has ...