Hepatitis C and opioid use disorder are both chronic but treatable conditions. Yet many Americans living with this deadly combination aren’t offered treatment. Imagine going to your doctor with strep ...
You're reading Part 5 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...
Orlando Health, one of the region’s largest health systems, announced the expansion of its “opioid navigator” program in certain local hospitals, which helps connect people who end up in the ER for ...
A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? A dose of buprenorphine, an opioid that can help treat addiction to ...
Opioid abuse and addiction, a crisis that has surged across the United States over the past two decades, has resulted in hundreds of thousands of fatal overdoses. There is a sliver of good news: ...
Methadone treatment for opioid addiction in the US evokes an image of people lined up at a special clinic at 6 am. Other ...
For Lacy Sisk, 40, the lowest moment in her opioid addiction was watching her family pack their belongings because she could no longer afford to pay the rent. All of her money had gone to pain pills ...