Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Have More Than Doubled in a Single Year, New Data Reveals In a short time period, fentanyl jumped from the 9th most common drug involved in fatal overdoses to the 5th.
New Vaccine Surprises its Creators by Lowering the Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdose "We saw both blunting of the drug's effects and, remarkably, prevention of drug lethality.”
Smoking Marijuana Could Help Alcoholics and Opioid Addicts Treat Their Addictions Research suggests addicts could use cannabis as “an exit drug to reduce the use of substances that are potentially more harmful.”
Drugs Fatalities Overtake Car Fatalities for the First Time in the UK Seven years ago, opioid fatalities overtook car fatalities in the US, and now the same phenomenon is happening in England.
New FDA-Approved Arm Implant Could Help Opioid Addicts Fight Their Dependence Fighting addiction from within.
Having More Friends Might Give You a Higher Threshold For Pain Our body’s natural painkiller likely plays a major role in the link.
Researchers Discover What Makes Some Drug Addicts More Likely to Relapse Than Others It’s critical to tailor addiction treatments to an addict’s unique needs.
Heroin Addiction Could Be Safely Curbed With This Morphine-Like Drug It helped heroin addicts who had tried and failed to treat their addiction multiple times.