Physical trauma such as broken bones and sprains are painful and uncomfortable experiences, but for some, they can trigger something worse: opioid relapse. For people with a history of opioid use ...

Opiate withdrawal is typically associated with flu-like symptoms that can be severe but improve over time. In rare cases, death is possible when withdrawal leads to extreme dehydration, a dangerous ...

For those who’ve experienced the legendary tow of opiates, a deepening cycle of despair and deliverance is commonplace. For the rest of us it is hard to imagine what motivates such futile and ...

DETROIT – Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is a critical tool to fight overdoses. It rapidly reverses the potentially fatal effects of opioids in the body, but how does it do that? In over 30 years as ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Opioid-related deaths are declining for the first time in nearly a decade as opiate bridge programming enrollment has increased, Austin-Travis County EMS officials confirmed at the ...

Arkansas continues to grapple with the effects of the opioid epidemic. New data shows an upward trend in the number of people diagnosed with opioid use disorder, or OUD, making Arkansas the fourth ...