Welcome back to the fifth installment of “Dissertation Diaries.” This week, we will be highlighting Chantal Aaron, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in The Elizabeth Byrne Lab at the Tufts Graduate School of ...

The scourge of opioid addiction continues to run rampant in Tennessee, but a local movement is looking to stamp out this ...

Tennessee will receive more than $1.2 billion in opioid settlement funds. Experts fear the money isn’t reaching people who ...

America’s opioid epidemic is as bad as it has ever been. Although the sharp increase in opioid overdose deaths over the last decade is largely attributed to the rise in fentanyl distributed through ...

This medicine may be one of the best tools doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to ...

Long before opioids flooded communities, something else was quietly changing—and it may have helped set the stage for today’s ...

The opioid crisis refers to the rapid increase in opioid overuse, misuse, and overdose deaths since the 1990s. It involves both prescription opioids and opioids that people use recreationally. People ...

An FDA advisory panel voted in favor of approving the drug in early October. The FDA announced on Friday that it would side with its advisory panel by approving a new opioid drug, called Dsuvia, ...

For the first time in 25 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of painkiller. Suzetrigine, sold as Journavx, is administered twice daily in 50-milligram oral tablets to ...

Nausea, sweating, and diarrhea are just some of the possible symptoms of opioid withdrawal. How soon those symptoms start and how long they last can vary by person, but the general opioid withdrawal ...

Opioid receptors are proteins in the nervous system that interact with opioids. Opioid receptors are part of the endogenous opioid system. This is the body’s internal system for regulating pain, ...