A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely ...

A new clinical trial showed promising results in curbing alcohol cravings in individuals with moderate alcohol-use disorder.

All patients who get shots of antiretroviral medication at Prevention Point's Sana Clinic now have undetected levels of the ...

Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people ...

Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according to new federal data published Thursday.

While medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone are FDA-approved for treating opioid use disorder, they ...

There's growing evidence to suggest that GLP-1 drugs, which include semaglutide, may be useful for treating alcohol use disorder.

The Matthew Perry Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have created an addiction medicine training fellowship in Matthew Perry’s name and selected its inaugural fellow ...

The Matthew Perry Foundation has set up an addiction medicine training fellowship, 15 months after the former Friends star died of a ketamine overdose. Established with Massachusetts General ...

Massachusetts General Hospital on Tuesday announced the creation of the "Matthew Perry Foundation Fellowship in Addiction Medicine." The inaugural fellow is Dr. Sarah "SK" Kler, who will join an ...

For people who study the opioid epidemic, 2025 marks a grim anniversary: It has been 30 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid OxyContin for the treatment of chronic pain.