The treatment, known as a femoral nerve block, acts as a local anaesthetic and can serve as an alternative to opioid painkillers.

RENO, Nev. – Hawkeye, the bow-and-arrow-wielding superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Avengers films, spoke to more than 700 Washoe County and Douglas County school districts’ middle and high ...

North Adams Public Schools is one of 39 school districts to receive a total of 51 grant awards from the Public School Districts' Opioid Recovery Trust to support students and families affected by the ...

FALL RIVER — At a Jan. 13 meeting, the School Committee voted in favor of teaching 11th and 12th graders how to administer nasal Narcan, or naloxone, spray — commonly known as the antidote for an ...

ABC News 5 Cleveland: Amy Korsch-Williams, assistant dean of academic affairs, field education and instruction, and instructor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, ...

LANSING, MI - Michigan is offering to repay student loans for health care professionals who provide opioid addiction treatment programs. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services aims to ...

-The U.S. opioid crisis has varied in severity across the country, leading to extended debate about how and why it has spread. Now, a study co-authored by MIT economists sheds new light on these ...