Photos and a box of ashes are all Sue La Velle has after her son was found dead in a Melbourne home in June. She's sharing her story for the first time in the hope it will prevent others from meeting ...

Opioid overdose deaths have dropped to the lowest they have been in three years, new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest, in the wake of a record surge of fatalities ...

Suboxone contains an opioid called buprenorphine. But it acts differently than opioid pain medications do, Frenz said. In ...

An oncologist accused of prescribing opioids to a 21-year-old romantic partner who fatally overdosed has now pleaded guilty ...

Gainesville law enforcement and medical professionals are warning the community of a new and deadlier synthetic opioid drug ...

The discovery of a potentially deadly new opioid disguised as a painkiller has prompted a health warning in the ACT.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.” What we strive to do has not changed since Dr Edward Trudeau's aphorism in the 19th century—but our therapeutic armamentarium has. For many ...

UF Health is warning about an opioid 50 times stronger than fentanyl that's starting to spread across the state. It's called ...

In a study published in Science, researchers at Karolinska Institutet describe the neural processes behind how morphine relieves pain. This is valuable knowledge because the drug has such serious side ...

A truck driver has been arrested at a Niagara border crossing after customs agents found vials of morphine hidden inside a commercial vehicle. Assistant U.S. Attorney P. Richard Antoine said in a ...