Opioid prescriptions have long been used as a medicine for lower back pain in emergency rooms; however, in the past few years, their usage has significantly decreased.

In a significant move aimed at combating the ongoing opioid epidemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced major ...

A federal judge on July 28 ordered the opioid case against Publix closed due to both sides agreeing to a settlement.

The FDA will soon require prescription opioid manufacturers to include stronger language on the medications’ labels warning ...

The main finding was that while 71.2 percent of new opioid prescriptions in 2017 were aligned with a composite of all four criteria, including dosage less than 50 MME per day and duration less ...

Opioid prescriptions have decreased dramatically over the past decade as physicians and public health officials learned about the dangers of OxyContin and other opioids prescribed for pain management.

Opioid prescriptions are triple what they were in 1999, the CDC found. Too many doctors still prescribe opioids inappropriately, driving the addiction epidemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday issued new guidance for doctors who treat pain patients that reverses a 2016 version used to sharply curtail opioid prescriptions ...

A New Jersey doctor has been charged with writing tens of thousands of opioid prescriptions for people struggling with ...

Opioid dependence, which accounted for only 2.2% of these diagnoses, cannot explain why a doctor failed to give an adequate reason for prescribing addictive painkillers.

How opioid prescriptions to Medicaid patients in South Carolina stack up. Almost 20 years after the first wave of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S., more than 75% of drug overdose fatalities were ...