Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. Patients who received higher doses of buprenorphine, a common medication used to alleviate opioid withdrawal and cravings, were less likely to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Newly-released inmate George Ballentine holds his prescription medicine Suboxone outside a pharmacy on July 23, 2018, in ...

Many patients unable to obtain the anti-addiction drug Suboxone due to strict federal requirements are turning toward illicit means to secure the medication, which ...

My passion for addiction medicine began during a nursing school rotation at an addiction treatment center. Over time, I found myself particularly drawn to those balancing demanding careers and those ...

Close up of fingers picking up a small pink Suboxone pill. The opioid epidemic is a public health emergency that claims the lives of more than 100 people in the United States every day on average, ...

It’s easier than ever for doctors to prescribe a key medicine for opioid addiction since the U.S. government lifted an obstacle last year. But despite the looser restrictions and the ongoing overdose ...

FILE - Newly-released inmate George Ballentine holds his prescription medicine Suboxone outside a pharmacy on July 23, 2018, in Greenfield, Mass. The attorneys general for 41 states and the District ...

PHILADELPHIA — The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has agreed to pay $102.5 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that the company engaged ...