Struggling with alcohol cravings? Naltrexone targets the brain's reward center to minimize drinking urges and reduce harmful ...

The vaccine, which showed positive results in studies of mice, is designed to block fentanyl from entering the brain, ...

Addressing overdoses from “street drugs” containing potent synthetic opioids poses a key challenge when utilizing opioid antagonists. A standard approach to known or suspected opioid overdose includes ...

Researchers at USF Health have discovered a new way opioid receptors can work that may lead to safer pain medications. Their findings show that certain experimental compounds can amplify pain relief ...

Scientists are testing a new kind of defense against the deadliest drug in the U.S. overdose crisis: a vaccine designed to ...

Naloxone reversed more than 9,500 overdoses across Pennsylvania in the first nine months of 2025, the state’s Department of ...

HELENA, Mont. — Sen. Mike Yakawich, R-Billings, compares the state’s purchase of overdose reversal drugs like naloxone from companies that have contributed to the opioid crisis to “paying the arsonist ...

For decades, opioids have been the blunt instrument of modern pain care, powerful enough to quiet severe suffering yet risky ...

New research reveals previously unknown ways opioid receptors can function, opening the door to safer pain treatments.

Though many Illinois libraries already have supplies of medications that can reverse opioid overdoses, a new state law will ...

In the decade preceding 2021, overdose deaths involving opioids more than quadrupled in New York state, with 4,946 deaths reported in 2021. From 2010 to 2021, the crude death rate jumped from 5 per ...