Researchers at USF Health are making dramatic strides in understanding how new opioid compounds work inside the body to ...

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 ...

Few patients with opioid toxicity receive opioid agonist therapy (OAT), data suggest. In a retrospective study that examined about 21,000 hospital visits related to opioid use disorder (OUD) in ...

Mapping how Narcan reverses opioid overdose can provide a molecular blueprint for developing more effective drugs against ...

WHO recently launched new guidance on Opioid agonist maintenance treatment as an essential health service: implementation ...

In the week following any hospital visit for an overdose, only 1 in 18 people with opioid use disorder begin a treatment known to be highly effective in reducing illness and deaths, according to new ...

Opioids affect both the gut and the immune system, said Summer Thompson, an assistant professor studying gut-brain ...

When combined with counseling and behavioral therapies, opioid use disorder medications are part of a comprehensive plan that supports long-term recovery. Opioid use disorder (OUD) occurs when ...