Opioids, such as oxycodone, morphine, codeine, tramadol and fentanyl, are commonly prescribed to manage pain. You might be given a prescription when experiencing pain, or after surgery or an injury.

If a parent has persistent opioid prescriptions, their adolescent or young adult offspring has more than double the risk of persistent opioid use, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine ...

The drugs are believed to be 10 times stronger than fentanyl ...

Smaller, cause-specific opioid prescriptions after emergency department visits for acute pain could provide adequate pain management and reduce the risk of misuse of unused opioid pills, according to ...

Opioid prescriptions for children and adolescents aged 19 years or younger decreased from 2018 to 2022. Dentists and surgical subspecialists were the top prescribers, whereas pediatricians showed an ...

CVS is being sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly filling prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act, then billing federal health care programs for reimbursement. “Among ...

A federal jury has convicted a Murfreesboro woman for illegally distributing nearly one million opioid pills to patients as ...

The Opioid Patients’ Right to Know Act is not a partisan proposal. It is a practical safeguard rooted in compassion and ...

Kearney County Health Services is seeing early success in an effort to reduce patients’ reliance on opioids after surgery, as ...

WASHINGTON -- The largest pharmacy chain in America is accused of "unlawfully dispensing massive quantities of opioids and other controlled substances to fuel its own profits at the expense of public ...