A person dies of opioid overdose once every 13 minutes in the US. A researcher proposes a way using existing technology to remove the opioid target in people to prevent overdoses.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on opioid
Displaying all articles
Aggressive marketing of prescription opioids by pharmaceutical companies provided doctors with scant information about potential harmful effects.
In 2016, drug misuse was cited as the top concern among New Hampshire voters. What remedies are the Democratic primary contenders putting forward to combat the opioid crisis?
State governments are leading the charge against opioid makers over their role in the epidemic. A team of researchers at Penn State examined just how much the crisis has cost them.
The $270 million settlement may not mean a whole lot if Purdue files for bankruptcy as it's reportedly considering.
Naloxone programmes have sprung up in the UK and elsewhere, but drug death rates keep climbing.
Did you know that trauma, even when there is no tissue or nerve damage, can cause chronic pain? Exactly how much pain and who is most vulnerable depends on which 'stress genes' we carry.
The opioid crisis in the US has quadrupled the number of babies born addicted to drugs.
It is thought that in 2002 fentanyl, or a drug based on fentanyl, was used by Russian special forces to disable Chechen rebels after a four day stand off in the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney
-
Associate professor, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
-
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Emergency Physician at University Health Network, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
-
Senior Research Fellow, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
-
Senior Lecturer of Midwifery, Anglia Ruskin University
-
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
-
Associate Professor of Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
-
Eberly Fellow, Professor Education and Demography, and Director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research, Penn State
-
Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
-
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Administration, Penn State
-
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State
-
Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, Penn State
-
Managing Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center, Penn State
-
Assistant Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
-
Professor of Pharmacology, Oklahoma State University
