They identified a population of trauma victims who took opioids at least once immediately after sustaining an injury. Among them, around one in six became repeat users over the course of the two ...

A recent study explodes the myth that the risk of addiction to prescription opioids exists only among patients abusing their opioids. Until recently, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health ...

Opioids have a high potential for misuse, and opioid use is a major contributor to drug overdoses in the U.S. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 2021, approximately 2.5 million ...

The mixture of stimulants and fentanyl presents powerful challenges to efforts to reduce overdoses because many users of stimulants don't know they are at risk of ingesting opioids, so they don't ...

In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, near a storefront advertising “free” cellphones, J.R. sat in an empty back stairwell and showed a reporter how he tries to avoid overdosing when he smokes crack cocaine.

A broader array of community groups serving drug users in New York City will soon be able to take advantage of the millions of dollars the city has received through legal settlements with opioid ...

As heroin and opioid abuse ... lead up to our recent documentary, Chasing Heroin, we asked the FRONTLINE audience to share their experiences with addiction. Some were users themselves.

Former drug users work on the front lines of the opioid crisis in Rhode Island They visit overdose victims in the hospital. They hand out lifesaving drugs on the streets and educate their peers ...

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