An internationally recognized leader in molecular pharmacology and neurobiology, Dr. Bohn recently joined USF Health. She is ...

It's a cold winter night in Patterson, New Jersey. There's still snow on the ground from the latest storm, and on a corner, under the neon lights of a liquor store, a group of people are gathered.

Opiate addiction has been deemed a “public health emergency” by HHS, but hospitals may have to prepare to face a different opioid crisis — a shortage of the medications hospitals use to manage pain, ...

Dr. Basimah Khulusi worked at the VA hospital in Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 25, 2014 — -- On the eve of a congressional hearing about the Department of Veterans Affairs' skyrocketing use of narcotic ...

Cannabis may be a pain-management substitute for people experiencing chronic or acute pain from conditions like cancer, according to new research from the University of Georgia. The studies comprise ...

DETROIT – Narcan, also known as Naloxone, is a critical tool to fight overdoses. It rapidly reverses the potentially fatal effects of opioids in the body, but how does it do that? In over 30 years as ...

Share on Pinterest CBD derivatives showed promise in supplementing the opioid overdose drug naloxone. Micky Wiswedel/Stocksy United Researchers are studying how specific components of cannabidiol (CBD ...

Portland Fire Bureau crews will start treating people for opiate addiction immediately after they’re revived from an overdose, using medications at the scene that are typically first administered at ...

A 40-year-old man arrives in my hospital’s emergency department, blue from not breathing. It takes several rounds of medication and ventilators to save his life. That same day on the medical wards, an ...