KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in the last two weeks to discuss ...

A new study reveals that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1), which include weight loss and diabetes meds ...

Receipt of methadone for opioid use disorder is associated with a lower risk for treatment discontinuation compared with ...

Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) had a lower risk of discontinuing methadone compared with buprenorphine/naloxone, and ...

From 2022 to 2023, Minnesota saw an 8% decrease in overall drug overdose deaths from 1,384 to 1,274 deaths among residents in the state, according to preliminary data. Though the numbers are still ...

New research shows that Ozempic and similar drugs reduce opioid overdoses by 40% and alcohol intoxication by 50% in people ...

Gov. Andy Beshear announced that Kentucky has received a $37.2 million, three-year federal grant from Substance Abuse and ...

Naltrexone (referred to as the "Ozempic of alcohol") is a drug that can help reduce alcohol and opioid cravings for people ...

Although most research and attention focus on adults, children and adolescents suffer from chronic pain and mental health disorders in numbers as high as adults.

Coupling short-acting opioids to reduce pain and misery with low-doses of buprenorphine, which mitigates cravings, has ...

Hemak, president and CEO of The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, received the 2024 Wilford ...

Researchers analyzed 1.3 million health records and found Ozempic, Mounjaro could lower rates of drug and alcohol overdoses.