Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Patients who received higher doses of buprenorphine, a common medication used to alleviate opioid withdrawal and cravings, were less likely to ...

Close up of fingers picking up a small pink Suboxone pill. The opioid epidemic is a public health emergency that claims the lives of more than 100 people in the United States every day on average, ...

April 23, 2012 (Atlanta, GA) — Methadone and buprenorphine are viable analgesic treatment options for patients with chronic pain and comorbid opioid addiction. However, when it comes to safety, ...

My passion for addiction medicine began during a nursing school rotation at an addiction treatment center. Over time, I found myself particularly drawn to those balancing demanding careers and those ...

People addicted to prescription painkillers reduce their opioid abuse when given sustained treatment with the medication buprenorphine plus naloxone (Suboxone), according to research published in ...

Pennsylvania prisons now give suboxone to thousands of inmates, with thousands more on the waiting list.

Cropped portrait, hand holding Suboxone pill, two people holding hands. If a person with opioid use disorder overdoses and survives, that person can either seek help or continue using. When the person ...

Adolescents who seek treatment for opioid addiction at an inpatient facility are more likely to be offered horseback riding than given full access to a common, highly effective addiction medication.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has agreed to pay $102.5 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that the company ...

NEWARK, Ohio — Almost five years ago Crysta Joehlin asked herself a question. In the back of a Newark ambulance while high on heroin, Joehlin tried to answer “What do I want?” At the time it was to ...

FILE - Newly-released inmate George Ballentine holds his prescription medicine Suboxone outside a pharmacy on July 23, 2018, in Greenfield, Mass. The attorneys general for 41 states and the District ...