In the past few years, state and local governments across the U.S. have begun spending billions in opioid settlements paid by ...

Opioid withdrawal can cause symptoms, such as restlessness, excessive sweating, and digestive issues, among others. Intense symptoms may require hospitalization. Opioids are a class of drugs that ...

There is a significantly higher 90-day hospital readmission rate amonginfants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome compared to those without.

Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) happens when someone uses opioid (OH-pee-oyd) medicines or drugs during pregnancy. NOWS happens because the baby becomes dependent on the drug during the ...

The death toll from fentanyl is falling as communities flood the streets with naloxone, an overdose-reversal drug. But deadly ...

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2015;16(2):175-183. Common themes suggested three categories of risk factors associated with IWS: patient-, process-, and system-level factors, which were synthesized into a ...

This article first appeared on KFF Health News. To view the data, see the original article on the site. In the last few years ...

An Arizona nonprofit focused on newborn babies exposed to addictive substances had a large insurer come back for its ...

Wellpath, a health care provider for hospitals, prisons and jails, has been dogged by wrongful death and medical negligence ...

The FDA approved the first non-opioid treatment for the management of opioid withdrawal symptoms in 2018. The treatment, Lucemyra (lofexidine hydrochloride), was found to be able to help nearly ...