Before an accidental overdose at Auckland City Hospital, Trevor Flood was an active builder. Now, his wife says, "he does ...

Trevor Flood has continued to decline after suffering irreversible brain damage after he was given an overdose of morphine ...

Jacquelyn Powers has been accused of giving her 14-year-old daughter a pill containing the highly lethal opioid drug, ...

Mother-of-two Helen Skelton has lived with incurable breast cancer since 2020, with her devastating diagnosis continuing to ...

More West Australians have died from accidental poisonings from using drugs and alcohol than any other State and Territory ...

Advances in pain management in recent years include new drugs, self-administered morphine pumps, epidural catheters, biofeedback, adaptive devices, and even clinics established specifically to ...

These include morphine, codeine ... Among the reasons it's so popular are that "it's a generic medication, so it is relatively inexpensive," says Lombardi. It also offers "excellent pain control for ...

Researchers have developed a non-addictive painkiller that remains inactive until it reaches sites of chronic pain. Instead of dulling the nerves that send the pain signals like other analgesics, this ...

History of benzodiazepines and z-hypnotic drug use prior to a traumatic injury increases the risk for persistent opioid use after a traumatic injury.

Over the past few decades, the opioid epidemic has gripped the United States, fueled in large part by the over-prescription ...

OMAHA, NE (KXNET) — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is reminding people to educate themselves on the dangers of fentanyl on National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day. Fentanyl is what’s ...

Ijeoma Uchegbu discusses nanomedicine's role in improving medication adherence and developing non-addictive pain relief ...