#Opioids

Opioid Overdose Deaths Are Rising Quickly in the HIV Population

A recent survey found that pharmacies are insufficiently educating the public about unused opioid and antibiotic disposal.

Researchers believe that lack of economic opportunity drives an increase in opioid use among local residents.

Opioid use disorder is fueling a rise in youth hepatitis C cases and a stabilization of a long decline in HIV among people who use drugs.

Starting January 1, the center—which has expanded to Colorado and Missouri—will be known as Vivent Health. Here’s what that means.

The 2019 Liver Meeting in Boston provided an array of important findings about the treatment and prevention of chronic liver diseases.

Experts are not certain what this latest trend signifies for the trajectory of the opioid use disorder epidemic, however.

The state will provide prisoners medication-assisted treatment to treat opioid use disorder and is creating more syringe services programs.

U.S. health care systems are seeking better solutions to the critical problem of drug diversion.

Consistent use of medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder can apparently reduce this risk.

The drug can quickly reverse opioid-driven overdoses.

Judge’s ruling may pave the way for opening the nation’s first supervised overdose prevention facility.

The opioid epidemic is principally responsible for a recent increase in infective endocarditis in the United States.

Over $12 million in grants has been awarded to the Wistar Institute to research the links between opioid receptors and immune activation.

Efforts to control viral hepatitis are falling behind, in part because of the growing opioid epidemic and homelessness crisis.

A literature review shows promising signs that teenagers, like adults, can benefit from methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone.

Six presidential candidates answered 15 questions posed by a coalition of more than 50 AIDS groups.