What is fentanyl: the deadliest drug in America
The drug is 50 times stronger than heroin.
Tag: opioid
Drug overdoses in the U.S. on the decline for the first time since 1990
Drug overdosing is still a huge healthcare problem in the US -- but at least there now seems to be ...
Marijuana legalization helps decrease opioid consumption, research shows
In states where both recreational and medical marijuana was legalized, opioid prescriptions dropped about 14%.
Opioids no better than Tylenol for treating chronic pain
Certainly something worth considering for opioids users.
Medical cannabis helps one third of chronic pain patients quit prescription opioid drugs
Herb could prove a worthy ally in our fight against opioid drugs.
Cocktail of simple over-the-counter drugs as effective as heavy opioids in treating pain
An Advil and Tylenol cocktail might be just as strong as opioids in dealing with the pain.
FDA wants the Opana opioid painkiller off the market
The United States is going through an opioid epidemic and this decision is a desperate attempt to do something about ...
Scientists make new opioid painkiller, without the nasty side effects
They started from scratch, using computational techniques to explore more than four trillion different chemical interactions.
9/10 of patients who overdosed on opioids and survived still get their meds
A new study shows a part of the problem that fuels America's prescription opioid epidemic -- the worst drug abuse ...
Prescription painkillers cause 67.8% of opioid overdoses. Heroin a distant second at 16.1%
An American national study that looked at hospital emergency department visits for opioid overdoses found that 67.8% of the cases involved ...