In the 1980s and 90s, pharmaceutical companies began to market opioid painkillers aggressively, while actively downplaying their addictive potential. The number of prescriptions skyrocketed, and so ...

Where does opium come from? The opium poppy grows best in warm, dry climates. Most opium is grown in a long, narrow stretch of mountains in central Asia, an area that starts in Turkey and moves east ...

People who work with drug users are warning a prescription monitoring program the province is preparing to launch won't help fix the root causes of opioid addiction — and could create an even more ...

The number of people in Norfolk addicted to heroin and painkillers is at its lowest level since 2006, figures have shown. Currently 1,650 opiate and prescription painkiller addicts are seeking ...

But some plant-based medicines are helping people detox from opiates and kick their addiction. One of them is Ibogaine and another is Kratom. At the end of 2018, Thailand, like many other countries ...

I wrote this the day before actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died from a heroin overdose, or as screenwriter and recovering addict Aaron Sorkin more accurately put it, “He did not die from an overdose of ...

The number of New Yorkers prescribed a key medication for opioid use disorder increased 7% during the pandemic as health providers battled against skyrocketing drug overdose deaths, a state report ...

New research has found a drug that treats insomnia works to prevent the addictive effects of the morphine opioids in mice while still providing effective pain relief. New research led by UCLA Health ...

Groups that help residents battling drug addiction will be able to expand their treatment services after the Livingston Parish Council approved plans to dole out more money from Louisiana’s opioid ...