A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...

starting off with pill addiction for at least 5 years before she got on heroin. My mother was in denial. I tried telling her for years she had a serious problem. She's used crack, cocaine ...

Preparation of a dose of Buprenorphine, an opioid that can be administered to people with opioid-use disorder to blunt ...

I was incredibly skeptical at first. My natural and immediate reaction was of course that heroin can’t possibly be a Lake Minnetonka problem, this kind of drug is only for the inner ...

Glucagon-like peptide receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) like Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and Eli Lilly’s ...

Kennedy proceeded to compare serotonin uptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a common type of antidepressant including Prozac, Zoloft and Lexapro, to a heroin addiction. “Listen, I know people ...

Before RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearings, Caroline Kennedy urged lawmakers to reject nomination saying he's led family 'down ...

Addiction is a disease that affects your brain ... 3.8 percent of American adults abuse opioids each year. Heroin is a drug that comes from a flower, the opium poppy, which usually grows in ...

Drug problems are especially linked ... followed by a rise since 2010 in addiction and overdose deaths from the illicit opiate heroin. At the same time, the profile of heroin users changed as ...