An audience that included the U.S. surgeon general, a U.S. senator, and top health officials from the city and state listened to Friday as Charles Jones illustrated the reason they ...

Methadone, as a treatment for opiate addiction, is one of the greatest medical discoveries of the 20th Century.  Discovered by Dr. Vincent Dole, Dr. Marie Nyswander, and Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek at Rockefeller University in the 1960s, it has been approved by the World Health Organization, and it is used throughout the planet as a front-line treatment against the scourge of heroin addiction.  While life-saving, it remains tragically misunderstood.

Emergency department patients have misperceptions about opioid dependence and want more information about their pain management options, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine ...

Written by Wanda Curtis When Worcester County resident Andrea Smith was 18 years old, her physician prescribed her Vicodin – an opiate pain pill – for fibromyalgia. Andrea said that ...