Opiate addiction is a growing problem in the United States and around the world. In the United States, there were more than four times as many unintended overdose deaths from prescription pain ...

More than 12 million people in the United States reported using prescription painkillers for nonmedical use in 2010. Prescription painkillers, also known as opioid pain relievers, include oxycodone, ...

People who take opiates for some time may experience withdrawal symptoms when they stop using them. Some home remedies may support medical therapies in relieving opiate withdrawal symptoms. Opiates ...

The negative affective states associated with drug withdrawal produce long-lasting behavioral effects thought to play a central role in the development and maintenance of dependence. However, little ...

Twenty to thirty percent of the world's population suffers from some sort of chronic pain, which is far more difficult to control than, say, the pain of a cut or bruise. A great deal of effort has ...

The title of this post comes from a San Francisco Chronicle article (April 6, 2023) [1] detailing why an alcoholic man sued Botanic Tonics, the makers of the “wellness drink” Feel Free, alleging it ...

Office-based treatment of opiate addiction with a sublingual-tablet formulation of buprenorphine and naloxone has been proposed, but its efficacy and safety have not been well studied. We conducted a ...

“I have had little or no sleep, owing to the tooth ache or rather stump ache,” Elizabeth Drinker wrote in her diary one night in 1796. “One of my Eye teeth very sore, my face much swelled and painful.