At two clinics in Oslo and Bergen, a small group of patients have been given a new treatment option for opioid addiction.

By Taylor Sisk for KFF Health News. Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan for Kentucky News Connection reporting for the KFF ...

There was a substantial increase in recent years in the use of a form of the primary medication to treat opioid use disorder, ...

Nearly all Americans are aware of the U.S. opioid crisis. Overdose deaths increased sixfold between 2003 and 2023, from 12,940 to 79,358. Yearly increases have been especially steep since 2013, when ...

Fewer than 40% of Medicare beneficiaries with opioid-use disorders receive proper care, study finds In 2022, 52,000 Medicare beneficiaries experienced an opioid overdose, according to the Centers for ...

Opioids relieve pain but are dangerous and highly addictive. In a recent 12-month period, there were 109,600 USA drug-overdose deaths, with 70% linked to opioids. In 2023, 5.7 million people in the ...

Methadone is a vital medication for opioid use disorder, yet it remains underused because of restrictive federal and state regulations. Before 2018, not all state Medicaid programs covered methadone ...

In consideration of recent US substance use treatment policy changes and unprecedented levels of adolescent opioid-related deaths, we examined the most recent national data (2022–23 National Survey on ...

The same drugs that transformed obesity treatment are now being investigated for substance use disorders, fueling interest in ...

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley proposes using $7.5 million in settlement funds to expand opioid and drug treatment care.

There has been a substantial increase in recent years in the use of a form of primary medication to treat opioid use disorder ...