“For patients worried about taking opioids, how to manage pain is an important ... than 550,000 people who had one of these surgery types sometime from 2016 through 2021: abdominal wall hernia ...

In Philadelphia, fatal overdoses are the No. 3 cause of death after heart disease and cancer. That's been the case each year since 2016, except in 2020 and 2021 when COVID-19 deaths outpaced overdose ...

Comparing buprenorphine and abstinence-based treatments for opioid-use disorder. A wealth of evidence suggests that a medication-based approach using buprenorphine — itself a type of opioid ...

America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.