After someone lives through an opioid overdose, taking the medication buprenorphine lowers their risk of death if they OD again, a new study found. Buprenorphine is a medication used to treat opioid ...

Opinion: Maryland and Gov. Wes Moore are removing barriers to care for addiction treatment, writes Robert Melvin.

Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) is a prescription drug that’s used to treat opioid use disorder in adults. Like other drugs, Suboxone may have interactions. Some interactions occur because one ...

The federal government loosened regulations for buprenorphine, but health experts warn that entrenched problems around training and access could stall efforts to get people the medication. By Noah ...

Pennsylvania prisons now give suboxone to thousands of inmates with a substance abuse history, with thousands more on the waiting list. It's costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and raising ...

Faced with a worsening drug crisis, policymakers in recent years have made it much easier for doctors to prescribe the highly effective opioid addiction treatment buprenorphine. However, many patients ...

Signing into law a change that can prevent thousands of Americans from dying of opioid overdoses should have been met with fanfare. Instead, it not only slid under the media radar but hasn’t been ...

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 ...

People struggling with opioid addiction will now be able to access an addiction treatment drug from any physician licensed to prescribe controlled substances, rather than having to seek out doctors ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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 ...