New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...

The Opioid Risk Tool for Opioid Use Disorder may help identify patients with chronic noncancer pain at increased risk for OUD ...

A machine learning algorithm performs well in predicting the risk of persistent opioid use after hand surgery, reports a study in the August issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. "We found that ...

Machine learning for health data science, fuelled by proliferation of data and reduced computational costs, has garnered ...

Opioid overdoses continue to take a devastating toll across the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2023, the nation recorded roughly 105,000 drug ...

Opioid overdoses continue to take a devastating toll across the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Imagine being on a ventilator and then getting pumped full of opioids as a bonus. A new study suggests that opioid use during mechanical ventilation might be setting patients up for long-term ...