Undergoing major surgery can be a daunting experience, and managing postoperative pain effectively is crucial for a smooth recovery. Opiates are commonly prescribed to alleviate severe pain following ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prescribing heroin to chronic addicts may be politically sensitive, but it is more effective than the substitute methadone at keeping drug abusers in treatment programmes, British ...

Jamie Lee Curtis celebrated a personal milestone on February 3: 25 years of sobriety. "25 years clean and sober. One day at a time. 9,125 of them," she wrote in a social media post. The actor ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a heroin addict from his teenage years into adulthood. In late 2024, many people scrutinized Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s past after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump nominated ...

The numbers differ, depending on who you listen to, but the idea that we are losing 65 to 100 people each day in this country to fatal opiate overdoses is sad, stunning, and not surprising. How and ...

TORONTO (Reuters) -- The scene wouldn't be out of place in any other clinical trial. Patients receive measured doses of a drug prescribed by a doctor, and inject it in a sterile environment under the ...

America's new epidemic, heroin, is taking lives at record rates. According to the DEA, the number of deaths attributed to heroin has tripled in the last five years. Now, the duty to save lives has ...

A new study published in Translational Psychiatry provides evidence that chronic heroin addiction impairs the neural networks ...