The Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) is a self-reported questionnaire ... alcohol (1 or 3), illegal drugs (2 or 3), or prescription drugs (4) a personal history of substance abuse: alcohol (3), illegal ...

Congress must commit to a smarter approach to combat opioid addiction, empowering local communities and insisting on ...

Early in August, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a sixth medication for reversing opioid overdoses. The product, call Zurnai, is an automatic injection of the drug nalmefene ...

Though overdose death rates have climbed steadily for the past two decades, researchers estimate that barely one-fifth of the approximately 2 ... opioid overdose every year, and yet we have a tool ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories ... repurposed to distribute life-saving supplies to help fight the opioid epidemic. A growing number of cities and local governments are ...

As part of the broader fight against opioid abuse, it could be another useful tool to reduce the number of deaths and prevent more individuals from becoming addicted in the first place.

Women with opioid use disorder and who are also involved with the criminal legal system face unique challenges and stigmas that may keep them from seeking substance use treatment and harm ...

FAIR Health has released the Opioid Tracker, a free, interactive tool tracking opioid abuse and dependence state by state. A brief released simultaneously offers a user's guide to the Opioid Tracker.

Narcan is just one brand of a drug called Naloxone, a drug used to help revive patients who are in mid-opioid overdose, essentially bringing them back from the brink of death. This tool is so ...

But once the patient regains consciousness, the person immediately starts the debilitating symptoms of opioid withdrawal ... Island soon could have a new tool to treat those painful ...

Last week, U.S. Reps. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio 12th, and Robin Kelly, D-Ill. 2nd, reintroduced the Remote Opioid Monitoring Act, which would direct the federal government to study the effectiveness ...