A key part of the federal government’s narrative about the epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths in the U.S. has been that it is driven by doctors and other clinicians overprescribing opioid ...

A Michigan doctor and self-styled fitness guru and adviser to mixed martial arts (MMA) and ultimate fighting championship (UFC) fighters — who allegedly prescribed some 2.2 million opioid pills over 2 ...

Older people with chronic pain expressed views about opioid use that often sharply differed from those of primary care doctors, an interview-based study indicated. When asked about the risks ...

A public health emergency was declared by the CDC in 2016 for opioid misuse and related deaths. Opioid overdose deaths are outlined in three waves by the CDC. The first began in the 1990s with ...

Megan Cantone stumbled out of the hospital in tears from the pain. She sought treatment for an infection from drug use. Medical professionals at the Denver hospital provided the treatment, but as ...

How can we combat addiction? While nearly 20,000 people died from a prescription opioid-related overdose in 2014, community leaders and elected officials are still scrambling to answer this question.

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ADDICTION. USING A BRAIN IMPLANT. IT’S STILL A GROWING PROBLEM YEAR BY YEAR. WE’VE SEEN MORE DEATHS, MORE OVERDOSES, DESPITE OUR BEST TREATMENTS. DOCTOR NESTOR TOLMICH BELIEVES ADDICTION IS A DISEASE ...

A metro Detroit doctor was sentenced to six years in federal prison after prosecutors said she illegally issued opioid prescriptions with an estimated street value of more than $5 million. Dr. Charise ...