A new way of administering buprenorphine is helping people who struggled with or feared the excruciating side effects of ...

On National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging Americans to dispose of their ...

The life-saving medicine naloxone was approved for nonprescription sale more than two years ago, but many rural Arkansas ...

To amputate or save a limb? Philly’s tranq crisis is forcing doctors to make difficult choices amid a slow public health ...

A hospital-based addiction consultation service can improve receipt of evidence-based treatment for people with opioid use disorder (OUD).

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya caused a firestorm of confusion when he announced plans to create a registry. Instead, HHS will commence a $50 million research effort into the causes of autism and ...

Major scientific discoveries can arise from simple decisions: say, by simply looking where virtually no one else has. Such was the case for Ines Ibañez-Tallon, a research associate professor in the ...

But buprenorphine’s strength as a treatment is also a weakness. Buprenorphine is an opioid. Like methadone, the tightly ...

New Jersey Health Commissioner Kaitlan Baston will step down to serve as the interim CEO at University Hospital in Newark.

The University of California San Diego School of Medicine has received a gift from the nonprofit organization DMT Quest to ...

New research shows that treatment using medication, counseling, and a supportive text messaging app can help young people quit vaping for good.

Last week, STAT’s Anil Oza reported that the Trump administration had targeted a scientific journal for its editorial ...