Once among the hardest hit by the opioid epidemic, overdose deaths are falling in Ohio, though challenges remain.

How does your doctor actually prescribe opioid medication? Why is it hard to get a refill? What are the best solutions to ...

With an estimated 5 million Americans battling opioid use disorder—resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year—a new ...

The CDC clarified aspects of its opioid prescribing guidelines for chronic pain in an April 9 letter to three cancer organizations, reports Medscape. The groups met with CDC leaders in fall 2018, ...

The probability of chronic opioid use spikes after just a few days of prescribed use, according to a new study published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. For the study, CDC ...

While the United States saw a record high of 33,000 opioid-related deaths in 2015, new research from the CDC suggests this tally may be short of the actual cost of life associated with the most lethal ...

The nation's top public health agency is proposing changing — and in some instances, softening — guidelines for doctors prescribing opioid painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...

Fewer patients are leaving emergency departments with opioid prescriptions, a continuation of a trend that began a decade ago, according to CDC data brief released Jan. 19. In 2019 to 2020, 8 percent ...

Babies who experience opioid withdrawal after being exposed to the drugs in utero are more likely to encounter educational difficulties in the future, according to a study from the CDC presented ...

While opioid prescriptions have declined since 2010, the amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was still three times higher than in 1999, according to the CDC’s most recent Morbidity and Mortality ...

CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, spoke about the opioid epidemic during a conference in New Orleans July 12 and commented on how he nearly lost one of his adult children to opioids, The Washington ...

With an estimated 5 million Americans battling opioid use disorder—resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year—a new ...