The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure recently proposed new changes to regulations around the prescribing and dispensing of ...

Patients who struggle with opioid addiction and who are treated by California emergency department physicians are remarkably ...

Lawmakers are hoping to expand and improve upon a 2015 law that offers grants to county jails treating inmates experiencing ...

Amidst the nation’s fentanyl crisis, the federal exemptions made special allowances for buprenorphine, specifically allowing ...

Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to blunt cravings for other drugs like fentanyl and reduce the risk of overdose.Credit ...

Thanks to the implementation of effective policy, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 24% ...

A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat ...

A Moundsville man was arrested Tuesday after authorities executed an arrest warrant at a Big Grave Creek Road camping trailer ...

The FDA has approved updated labeling for Sublocade (buprenorphine extended-release) injection to include a rapid induction protocol and alternative injection sites.

Racial disparities in the receipt of treatment for opioid use disorder exist in the United States, with Black patients having ...

Buprenorphine is a highly effective medication that treats opioid cravings, related depression, and withdrawal symptoms. Buprenorphine is an inexpensive and safe treatment for OUD and that has ...