Treatment & Prevention

In areas of the country disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis, treatment programs are less likely to accept patients paying through insurance of any type or accept pregnant women, a new Vanderbilt study found.

Practice and research are showing that physical therapy could diminish the need for opioids, and thus lower the risk of addiction.

New research shows that targeting receptors on immune cells rather than nerve cells may be a more effective non-opioid treatment for pain, particularly for chronic pain.

Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee and New York have significantly reduced opioid dosages, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Just a single visit from a trained, unbiased academic can lead to safer opioid prescribing behavior of a physician, according to a new study.

By combining computer simulations with laboratory experiments, an international research team revealed something new about a molecular pathway that enables roughly half of all medications to achieve their desired effects – but is also responsible for many side effects.

USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers are working to combat opioid addiction before it can begin by using machine learning.

Jennifer Haythornthwaite teaches the Pain Care Medicine course that's required for all first-year Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine students.

A new automated text messaging service may curb opioid abuse and reduce the likelihood of relapse while also decreasing treatment costs, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and Epharmix, a St. Louis-based digital health company.

Giving opioids to animals to quell pain after surgery prolongs pain for more than three weeks and primes specialized immune cells in the spinal cord to be more reactive to pain, according to a new study by CU Boulder.