🦞🌯 Lobster Roll

Study led by researchers with USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics shows notifying doctors when their patients fatally overdose has a long-lasting impact on reducing opioid prescriptions. There are no simple solutions to America’...

Opioids are the most powerful painkillers we have, but they’re incredibly addictive. Tens of thousands of people in the U.S. die of an opioid overdose every year. Will we ever have drugs that are just as good at getting rid of pain but without the risk of addiction and overdose? If you or someone yo...

Acupuncture during knee surgery cut opioid use dramatically, with most patients avoiding high-dose pain meds. It’s a safe, promising tool in combating the opioid crisis. Patients who have acupuncture during total knee replacement surgery report less pain and need far fewer opioids to manage their di...

Differences found by region, age groups, and prescriber type. The volume of prescription opioids dispensed from retail pharmacies declined by 21% from 2008 to 2018, but the decline was not uniform across geographic areas, among types of patients, or by type of prescriber, according to a new RAND Cor...

Expanded Library of Known Variants, New Research Efforts Aid the Fight Against Fentanyl While COVID-19 has dominated the news for the last two years, a separate epidemic claims the lives of more than 100,000 Americans each year. Fentanyl, a synthetic substance initially created as a painkiller but e...

Study Suggests New Vaccine Could Prevent Deadly Opioid From Entering the Brain A new vaccine has been developed that targets the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl that could block its ability to enter the brain, thus eliminating the drug’s “high.” The breakthrough discovery could have major implic...

As the U.S. pushes for wider access to naloxone, a fast-acting opioid antidote, researchers are exploring cannabidiol (CBD) as a potential alternative due to its reduced effectiveness against synthetic opioids like fentanyl. A team has reported CBD-based compounds that decrease fentanyl binding and ...

A new study sheds light on resistance to using buprenorphine — a proven tool in fighting opioid epidemic. New research reveals that only one in four adolescent residential treatment centers across the United States provides a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, despite an ever-rising numbe...

A Study From Rutgers Suggests That Enhancing Prison Reentry Programs Could Reduce the Opioid Overdose Death Rate in the U.S. With opioid overdose deaths surging in the United States, many communities are urgently seeking effective solutions. A recent Rutgers-led study has identified strengtheni...

New research suggests some early Americans may have traveled on winter sea ice down the coast from Beringia as long as 24,000 years ago. One of the hottest debates in archeology is how and when humans first arrived in North America. Archaeologists have traditionally argued that people walked through...

Yale’s study identified structural and functional brain alterations in opioid use disorder patients, offering insights for tailored treatments. Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine have identified structural and functional brain changes in individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). Using...

Also titled, "Hey Coworkers, Stop Shaming Me For Going On Vacation" (*found in the meta tags*)