Advocates of addiction treatment say DOGE’s efficiency goals should include easing regulations that lead patients to dub ...

nor be evaluated by a specialty addiction medicine physician or team. The patient with opioid overdose will subsequently have a 90% chance of using opioids again, increasing their risk of another ...

A researcher posed as a case manager and called treatment providers across the city to figure out how easy it is to get medication that reduces the risk of fatal overdoses.

Ozempic and similar semaglutide-based medications have been hailed as miracle drugs. Known as GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) ...

Republicans hope to save a lot of tax dollars by cutting Medicaid. Drug policy experts say as many as a million Americans in ...

Hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who received in-hospital addiction consultation services were more ...

More than 200 addiction medicine, social services and law enforcement professionals registered to attend the second annual ...

Despite the availability of effective medications for opioid use disorder, few patients initial treatment when they are hospitalized for other illnesses. A new clinical trial shows that a specialized ...

April marks Alcohol Awareness Month, an annual observance that serves as an important reminder or the ongoing fight against alcohol addiction and its devastating effects.

An artificial intelligence (AI)-driven screening tool, developed by a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research team, successfully identified hospitalized adults at risk for opioid use ...

A new study shows that using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen hospital patients for opioid addiction can help doctors ...