Opioids include both opiates (drugs derived from the opium poppy, including morphine, codeine, heroin, and opium) and synthetic opioids like hydrocodone, oxycodone, and methadone. Both types have ...

A group of trade unions, health-care advocates and non-profits is calling on the province to take action against the opioid ...

Offcials say a social worker visiting the Snohomish County Jail nearly delivered prescription opiates to an inmate by ...

A former nurse has been arrested and charged with stealing morphine from the hospital she worked at. The 36-year-old woman is ...

An opioid (sometimes called an opiate or narcotic) is a type of painkiller made from a synthetic form of opium, which is derived from poppies. Hyperalgesia is amplified pain; processes in the nervous ...

Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Morphine ...

Morphine sulfate 100mg/5mL (20mg/mL). Morphine is a full opioid agonist and is relatively selective for the mu receptor, although it can bind to other opioid receptors at higher doses. The ...

Boosting the endocannabinoid 2-AG in the brain can counteract opioid addiction while preserving their pain relief, a Weill ...

Montel Williams reveals that he consumed 12 to 13 pills every day during his opioid addiction while treating multiple ...

Nowadays, fentanyl has become a household word. It’s in the news almost daily and all-over social media and the internet. I think most understand fentanyl is a drug and it’s ...

Opiates are the most effective and successful treatments for moderate to severe pain and use of these compounds has greatly increased over the past decades, with opioid prescriptions in the United ...

Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times ...