As opioid-related overdoses continue to surge nationally, federal and professional healthcare authorities are calling for more aggressive use of medications such as buprenorphine (alone or in combination with naloxone), methadone,[...]

Too often, we characterize the growing drug overdose epidemic as affecting mostly young people involved in recreational use. But when we look more deeply into drug overdose death rates nationally--[...]

Telehealth-based prescribing of buprenorphine for treatment of patients with opioid use disorder is “safe and beneficial…and should be made available to those who need it” says Dr. Nora Volkow, director[...]