People with a nonfatal opioid overdose who have access to a peer support program while in the emergency department are more likely to initiate treatment and less likely to have repeated overdoses, ...

The first time I saw Maya (not her real name) huddled under blankets in a hospital bed in 2013, she had been to dozens of inpatient detox programs and residential treatment centers since she had begun ...

Pre-arrest diversion-to-treatment programs that focus on long-term treatment for substance use disorder may reduce crime recidivism, incarceration and overdose deaths, according to new study led by a ...

July 3 (UPI) --U.S. researchers said Wednesday that they have identified a new drug that could make inroads on the devastation caused by opioids -- by supercharging naloxone, branded as Narcan, the ...

Recent reports suggesting that drug busts cause drug overdoses to spike not only rely on faulty data -- but faulty logic. The real cause of overdose deaths is lax enforcement and successful drug ...