With the goal of informing clinician practice, a new study explores the harms and benefits of continuing and of discontinuing the long-term prescription of opioid medicines to adults with chronic pain ...

Patients with acute pain after surgery or due to a broken bone or an injury are often prescribed opioid medications, according to Julie Pilitsis, MD, PhD, a neurosurgeon at Banner – University ...

Widespread access to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) can reduce the risk of suicide by 35% among people with opioid use ...

Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help ...

Opioids work by binding to opioid receptors in the brain, spinal cord, and other areas of the body, triggering the brain’s reward centers and reducing pain signals. They also mute other nerve cell ...

Older adults are not immune from the opioid crisis, but senior living can provide safeguards through medication management to help control chronic conditions and effectively mitigate pain, Argentum ...

California officials are accepting public comment through mid-March on a plan that would remove medical marijuana as an accepted treatment for injured employees in workers’ compensation cases. The ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help some patients. With the goal of informing clinician ...

A new federally funded study shows that legalization of marijuana in U.S. states is associated with reduced prescriptions for opioid pain medications among commercially insured adults—indicating a ...