September 4th, 2019The opioid tramadol produced a 10-fold greater risk of developing hypoglycaemia than virtually every other opioid, found a US study.
Since its approval in 1995, the...
August 29th, 2019Weakly regulated painkillers are causing untold damage in West Africa, but stricter controls could have dire consequences for patients with chronic pain. Laura...
All opioid medicines in the United Kingdom will have to carry prominent addiction warnings to protect people 'from the darker side of pain killers', Health Secretary...
April 28th, 2019Robin Wallace thought years of working as a counselor in addiction treatment gave her a decent understanding of the system, reports Deborah Becker for NPR. She has...
December 3rd, 2018As the United States continues to wrestle with the heroin and opioid epidemic, no one in the country is probably more qualified to write about the issue than...
