Undergoing major surgery can be a daunting experience, and managing postoperative pain effectively is crucial for a smooth recovery. Opiates are commonly prescribed to alleviate severe pain following ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students from the Center for Public Safety Initiatives hope visitors to this year’s Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 6 will take a minute to ...

Governor Peter Shumlin has said his state is at the center of “a full-blown heroin crisis” that is plaguing the whole country. Heroin use in Vermont has risen dramatically in the past 12 years. This ...

The growing availability of heroin, combined with programs aimed at curbing prescription painkiller abuse, may be changing the face of opiate addiction in the U.S., according to sociologists. While ...

A FORMER addict who spent 27 years hooked on heroin is giving back to the community after becoming clean from drugs.

Twenty-four percent of US adolescent treatment centers do not use a “lifesaving” medication. An article appeared today in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Treatments Used Among ...

A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off heroin for the past six years. A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off ...

Jamie Lee Curtis celebrated a personal milestone on February 3: 25 years of sobriety. "25 years clean and sober. One day at a time. 9,125 of them," she wrote in a social media post. The actor ...