#opioids

Endo has agreed to pull a prescription painkiller off the market after the FDA asked it to do so to help stem the opioid crisis.

They’re mostly straight, white, rural and poor.

A look at the most notable HIV-related studies presented at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle.

While overall use of each drug has held steady among them in recent years, opioid use is increasing among Blacks and poorer gays.

Although IDUs who initially became addicted to opioid pills have a lower HIV rate, they are still at high risk for the virus.

FDA commissioner Robert Califf’s overview of the opioid epidemic in the United States, and recent actions taken by the FDA.

And why a public health expert there now says, “We have pretty much stopped the spread of HIV.”

Rising abuse of heroin and prescription opioids has led to outbreaks of HIV and hepatitis C.

The plan is to help U.S. health centers hire more than 800 providers to treat nearly 124,000 new clients who abuse drugs.

A rise in opioid dependency and in the rate of injection drug use in four central Appalachian states has occurred in tandem with a rising...

There has been a drop in the proportion of drug treatment programs offering testing for STIs and HIV, although hepatitis C testing availabilit...

It’s a challenge for some people with HIV. But there’s help for conquering—or at least managing—chronic pain.