Undergraduate researchers from Pennsylvania State University Lehigh Valley reported that almost a third of students at the ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - A new joint program is looking to find the root cause of addiction here in Horry County. Myrtle Beach, Horry County and the City of Conway are all partnering for the Opioid ...

According to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, there were an estimated 70,029 overdose deaths involving opioids in 2020. On May 13, 2020, her son Beckett Cypheridge became one of the ...

This post is co-authored by Khary Rigg, Ph.D., and Malika Rigg, Au.D. The potential consequences of misusing opioids are well documented. Reports of opioid addiction and overdose are found throughout ...

In a new study, opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in specific regions of their brains. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay News "This is your brain on drugs," the old anti-drug ...

Homelessness is primarily caused by unaffordable housing, not addiction or mental illness, and is exacerbated by a lack of ...

Before the spreading coronavirus became a pandemic, Emma went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting every week in the Boston area and to another support group at her methadone clinic. She says she felt ...

Prescriptions of tapentadol have surged in the last five years - The Examination After years of misery, Brad Liefvoort managed to beat his addiction to oxycodone. In 2018, he and his wife, Linda ...

Nitazene was first developed in the 1950s as an analgesic, but was never approved for medical use. Instead, it was “limited ...