Proponents of the plan to equip paramedics with buprenorphine call it the "missing link" in the bridge to recovery for many ...

Under a new state pilot, paramedics in Kitsap County will start administering a medication that blunts withdrawals and cravings.

We’re headed into the Somerset County Jail. Madison, Maine. So this is the entrance. This is for weapons clearing only. In ...

More than 5 million Americans struggle with opioid use disorder, a physical addiction entwined with America’s health, ...

“Locally, we’ve seen a decrease in overdose deaths and a lot of that is related to improved access to medications,” said ...

Rates of opioid use were similar for people with opioid use disorder prescribed buprenorphine who participated in mindfulness training versus a recovery support group, a randomized trial showed. Among ...

It can be prescribed for severe pain but increasingly is being ... The Food and Drug Administration classifies buprenorphine as a Schedule III drug, meaning it has low to moderate potential ...

Buprenorphine, a milder, safer alternative to methadone ... begging policymakers not to take measures that could reduce what they said were needed pain medications. Purdue Pharma, which introduced ...

A former doctor from Kanawha County was sentenced for unlawful distribution of oxycodone. According to a press release, 57-year-old Dr. Alexander V. Otellin, formerly of Charleston, was sentenced on ...

From acne to chronic pain relief, the market for transdermal patches is growing. Lounge explores the science, and reasons for ...

A man was charged with a pair of drug-related offenses after Worcester Police witnessed an apparent drug deal.

In 2017, the Iowa Board of Medicine accused Dr. Robert Cunard of Missouri Valley of inappropriate prescribing, improper pain ... and Suboxone to patients who were trying to recover from drug ...