Legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use may lead to a decline in daily opioid use among people who inject ...

The ongoing opioid epidemic highlights health care’s role in fueling the crisis as well as the highly addictive nature of ...

Opioid overdoses continue to take a devastating toll across the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Opioid overdoses continue to take a devastating toll across the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2023, the nation recorded roughly 105,000 drug ...

A reporter recently asked me about what harm I may have caused as a pain management physician who prescribes opioids. As I reflected on my last 10 years in this field, my response was that the harms I ...

The stuff on the street is getting more dangerous, which is partly why Phoenix saw nearly 6,000 opioid overdoses in 2025.

The new method is designed to focus specifically on pain-related signals, without interfering with normal activity in other parts of the brain. A new preclinical study has identified a gene therapy ap ...

At The Walrus Talks Opioids, medical experts, frontline workers, policymakers, and individuals with lived experience with ...

As a medical student, the prism of pain helped me begin seeing patients as people — discerning their stories, examining their bodies, understanding their lives, and more. In medical schools around the ...

A Kentucky medical cannabis practitioner says the expansion could offer alternatives to opioids for roughly 430,000 people.

Researchers have found opioids don’t mitigate pain any better than a placebo. Researchers in Australia have found that for low back pain sufferers in their mid-40s, opioids don’t mitigate pain any ...

Doctors said a growing number of people who suffer from chronic pain are now turning to medical marijuana for relief.