Recovery

It's not a controlled substance, but taking large quantities of gabapentin can provide a high similar to opioids. It's not clear what the long term effects of such use are…

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price made two claims about opioid addiction that are contradicted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which is part of the department Price heads. The post Can Opioid Addiction Be Cured? appeared first on FactCheck.org.

A team of addiction experts hoped that participating in a podcast series about opioids would provide additional perspective on their work. It did.

Untreated inmates are 12 times more likely to overdose in the first two weeks after they are released. But one drug may offer a solution.

Most people with opioid addictions don't get the treatment proven to work: therapy with a medication that can stabilize the body's natural opioid receptors.

Russia has an opioid abuse problem as big as America's, but a very different way of dealing with it. No methadone replacement therapy in Moscow – just a couple of aspirin and a short, sharp withdrawal shock.

Pain rarely kills, while pain pills are killing thousands of Americans. Identifying those at high risk of addiction and other steps can stop this epidemic.

The finding from the largest head-to-head study to date between two leading drugs to treat opioid addiction could dramatically change prescribing habits.

Say you're a publicly insured Californian with an addiction to heroin, fentanyl or prescription narcotics, and you want to quit. New research suggests you can do it the way most treatment-seeking addicts in the state do - by undergoing a medically su