Treating depression among patients with chronic prescription opioid use may help wean the patients off opioids, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers used ...

Patients who increased doses of opioid medicines to manage chronic pain were more likely to experience an increase in depression, according to Saint Louis University findings in Pain. The study, ...

A clinical trial of an experimental drug for treatment-resistant major depression finds that modulation of the endogenous opioid system may improve the effectiveness of drugs that target the action of ...

Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 4 (ANI): According to a recent study, there is a strong link between mental health disorders and substance abuse. "For every additional 1 per cent of the population that has ...

Ingesting just one oxycodone tablet and moderately consuming alcohol can increase the risk of respiratory depression, a potentially fatal side effect caused by drug overdose, according to a new study ...

RICHMOND, Va., March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Indivior PLC (LSE/Nasdaq: INDV) today announced results from a pharmacodynamic study demonstrating that OPVEE ® rapidly reverses opioid-induced ...

This head-to-head pharmacodynamic study in healthy volunteers examined the ability of both OPVEE and intranasal naloxone to reverse opioid-induced respiratory depression, which is the shallow and slow ...