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11 Oct 2020

Cannabis may encourage use of non-medical opioid, finds study

The findings showed that opioid use was at least as prevalent on days when cannabis was used as on days when it was not and that this was irrespective of whether participants were experiencing pain or not. The study, published in the scientific journal Addiction, is among the first to test opioid substitution directly. The study, which compared the probability of non-medical opioid use on days when cannabis was used with days when cannabis was not used, included 13,271 days of observation among 211 participants from the greater New York area.

10 Jul 2019

This pain treating herbal supplement unsafe for use

The herb 'kratom', which is increasingly being used to treat pain and opioid addiction, is not safe for use.

04 Jun 2019

Anti-depressants raise hip fracture risk in elderly: Study

Australians are among the highest users of anti-depressants in the world, with approximately 10 per cent of the adult population taking them each day.

27 May 2019

Short-term opioids usage increases subjective pleasure: Study

As part of a recent study, a team of researchers examined the effects of remifentanil, an opioid, and naloxone, an opioid agonist, on emotional responses evoked by pleasant and unpleasant film clips.

28 Nov 2018

Opioid use may up hip fracture risk in Alzheimer's patients

The findings also showed that the risk was highest in the first two months of opioid use and attenuated after that.

15 Oct 2017

With no morphine, 25 million die in pain each year: Report

Of the 172 countries studied, 25 had essentially no morphine, while a further 15 had enough to meet less than one per cent of pain relief requirements.

21 Feb 2017

Venomous marine snail may provide potent painkiller: Study

The medical community is in need of alternative therapies that do not rely on the opioid pathways to relieve pain.

16 Dec 2016

Five reasons why you should stop taking too many painkillers!

If you are the type who pops in painkillers without wasting thoughts over your action, then it is time to be alert. Taking in too many painkillers have side-effects which can, in fact, turn life-threatening.

Fentanyl trafficking

24 Nov 2016

Canada, China agree to jointly combat fentanyl smuggling

The drug`s use in Canada has turned into a public health crisis that Paulson described as "a grave threat."

18 Aug 2016

Painkillers without deadly side effects developed

Researchers, including Aashish Manglik from Stanford University, custom-engineered the drug from scratch, using computational techniques to explore more than four trillion different chemical interactions.

07 Apr 2016

America witnesses surge in deaths caused by overdose of drug more stronger than heroin

10 people died over a period of 12 days from drug overdose in the Sacramento area.

23 Jan 2016

Opioids don't guarantee improvement in physical function

Patients who were not prescribed any opioids had statistically lower disability and higher physical functioning scores, the findings showed.

15 Jan 2016

Pakistan smuggles drugs worth Rs 7,500 crore into Punjab every year: AIIMS report

Notably, nearly all of the heroin enters India over the Pakistan border, and by the smugglers backed by Pakistan's ISI.

13 Jan 2016

Long-term use of opioid may increase risk of depression

Longer duration of use of opioid is linked with onset of depression after controlling for pain and daily morphine equivalent doses.

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