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Now a third option is available after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Suzetrigine, sold as twice-daily Journavx, a non-addictive prescription drug for ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal is introducing new legislation surrounding gambling addiction. The bill would establish the first ...

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NSDUH only queried opioid misusers about opioid use disorder symptoms. After they changed the protocol and asked all ...

The drug, shown to be almost as effective as opioids for short-term pain, is the first fundamentally new kind of painkiller ...

Most states allow some form of "medical marijuana." It is especially popular with pain patients, many of whom do not have ...

As prescription drug abuse has grown in the US and Europe ... when a nurse or provider acquires the medicine until the treatment is either administered or destroyed. “Whether a patient ...

As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

A new opioid-free pain medication was approved by the FDA on Thursday, marking a non-addictive alternative for patients.