Drexel University College of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is one of four academic medical sites serving as national Centers of Excellence for ...

Incidents of children in the U.S. being poisoned by the synthetic opioid fentanyl “increased and became more severe”, a new study reveals.

according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. That’s why Alabama lawmakers enacted a new law that allows prosecutors to charge fentanyl drug traffickers with manslaughter if someone dies ...

Researchers believe that alcohol can alter the brain's chemistry and allow people to more easily become addicted to harder ...

In their 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article on opioids, Dr. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Dr. A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., who served as ...

A new USC-led study provides the first nationwide picture of who knows about, carries, and uses naloxone to reverse deadly opioid overdoses. Mireille Jacobson, professor of gerontology at the USC ...

Secures Strategic Partnership for the Development and Commercial Launch of PF614 and PF614-MPARGroundbreaking Trial on PF614-MPAR Generates Positive Interim Results SAN DIEGO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / M ...