Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...

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This illustration image shows tablets of the opioid painkiller oxycodone. A novel non-opioid treatment for post-surgical pain, suzetrigine, is set to enter the market in 2025. Its uptake could be ...

Jason Votrobek, a former pill mill operator, explains how opioid clinics distributed massive amounts of prescription painkillers for profit.

Nearly all Americans are aware of the U.S. opioid crisis. Overdose deaths increased sixfold between 2003 and 2023, from 12,940 to 79,358. Yearly increases have been especially steep since 2013, when ...

Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to provide pain relief, offering greater hope that new classes of these drugs may ...

Rodin is a clinician scientist and assistant professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. A woman sat in our emergency department in agonizing pain, ...

Illicit drugs aren’t tested by the FDA or pure, nor as advertised by drug dealers. Illegal drugs are cartel-driven around profit maximization, cash-only trading, and a form of entrepreneurship.

The Land of Enchantment is anything but. New Mexico is the most drug-addled state in the union, and its teenagers are the ...

Last week, researchers dropped a bombshell report on DFNZ, a developing new medicine derived from a class of drugs once considered too dangerous to even study. Their proposal sounded almost too good ...

College campuses are microcosms of our society — diverse, dynamic, and faced with unique challenges, including the ongoing opioid crisis. As someone deeply engaged in researching how higher education ...