June 16th, 2021Doctors are slowly enrolling patients in France's first experiment with medical cannabis, three months after it began, writes Sarah Elzas for Radio France...
April 7th, 2021Adolescents and teenagers who experiment with marijuana and prescription drugs are more likely to get hooked on them than young people who try these drugs for the first...
October 14th, 2020Cannabis users appear to need more anaesthesia than non-users during surgery, and also more opioids to relieve pain after surgery, according to a University of Colorado...
August 5th, 2020There have been some raised eyebrows at the UK medical guidelines body's draft guidelines on the management of chronic pain punting acupuncture, despite what the...
January 8th, 2020
By putting morphine production and distribution under government control a, Rwanda has become a model for Africa.
As thousands die from addiction in rich countries...
In recent years, heroin and other opioid fatalities have escalated to crisis proportions, intensifying the need for evidence-based recommendations for educational and...Addiction News
Citing mounting costs of litigation that are siphoning funds that could otherwise go to abate the opioid crisis, a bankruptcy judge on 11 October ordered a pause in...
October 15th, 2019
A growing group of chronic pain patients are turning to the addiction treatment medication naltrexone, which can substantially relieve pain when used in micro-doses,...
A test to detect opioid drugs in exhaled breath has been developed by engineers and physicians at the University of California – Davis. A breath test could be useful...
October 2nd, 2019
A looming drugs crisis in Africa is being made worse by ineffective drug policy, fuelled by corruption and organised crime, says the ENACT transnational organised crime...
