The rate of opioid use disorder (OUD) is high in Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women, and they have a high rate of severe ...

Opioid misuse and specifically opioid use disorder (OUD), continues to represent a significant U.S. public health threat, ...

While Kentucky ranks seventh highest for overdose deaths nationwide, according to the CDC, recent progress — including a 20% ...

The machine was installed on December 9, and a sheriff’s office spokesperson said it’s already been used 24 times.

The naloxone being distributed is paid for through a Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Site-based Program grant and the machine is leased through the same grant funding.

The increasingly "messy drug supply" — especially of illicit fentanyl — is making street drugs more dangerous, as their ...

Trend tracking and harm reduction policies may help alleviate the high rate of overdose deaths in the US, according to one ...

The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office has become the first sheriff’s office in Massachusetts to install a naloxone vending machine, providing the lifesaving opioid overdose reversal medication free of charge ...

Researchers conducting an alcohol use disorder trial used personality tests to get at why psilocybin was helping people.

New data from the state’s Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force shows a drop from the first six months of 2024 compared to the same time in 2023.

They are working to close gaps in substance use care and decrease stigma to fight one of the leading causes of maternal death in NC.

A University of Alberta research team has successfully used machine learning as a tool for earlier detection of attention ...