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Patients Hospitalized After Medetomidine-Laced Fentanyl Use Describe Extreme Sedation and Withdrawal That Standard Treatment Did Not Fully Ease

Patients hospitalized after medetomidine exposure describe extreme sedation and hard-to-treat withdrawal. Learn the warning signs and when to get help.

Medical Daily

A 310 Gram Stone Filled a 35-Year-Old Man's Bladder, and Opioid Use May Explain Why

A young man with opioid use disorder developed a 310-gram bladder stone and kidney damage, a link his doctors say has not been reported.

Medical Daily

Three Synthetic Kratom Opioids Are Now Schedule I While Concentrated 7-OH Products on Shelves Are Not

The DEA made three synthetic kratom opioids Schedule I. Concentrated 7-OH gummies and shots sold in gas stations are still not federally scheduled.

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Walmart Agrees to Pay $50 Million Over Allegations Its Pharmacies Filled Invalid Opioid Prescriptions

Walmart has agreed to pay $50 million to resolve federal allegations that its pharmacies illegally filled thousands of invalid prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances, ending a major federal case that dates back nearly six years.

The Free Financial Advisor

A Nurse Practitioner to Star Athletes Paid $1.4 Million and Lost Her Prescribing Registration Without Criminal Charges

Federal filings allege a nurse practitioner prescribed 260,000 controlled substance pills across 20-plus states. She settled a civil case and lost her DEA registration.

Medical Daily

Company behind Greta bus crash sentenced after 'recruiting man addicted to opioids'

Linq Buslines and its two directors were fined for breaching heavy vehicle laws.

Newcastle Herald

How Cone Snail Venom Became a Powerful Painkiller: The Ocean Toxin That Changed Medicine

A Shell That Can Kill YouPick up a cone snail on a beach and it will not wait. The animal fires a hollow, harpoon-like tooth called a radula through its flesh, through yours, and injects venom in under a second. There is no antidote. In documented fatalities, death from respiratory…

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Pain and the struggle for relief: How fear influences patient access to medical opioids

If you are in severe pain and struggling to get opioid medication in Indonesia, you are not alone.

The Conversation

Heat and Drug Use Are a Dangerous Combination. What Chicago Documented Could Happen in Any City This Summer

Chicago saw a 40% opioid overdose spike during a 95-degree heat wave in June 2025. Extreme heat makes drugs far more dangerous, and peak summer temperatures are still ahead.

Medical Daily

From birth until death: how the ethnicity pain gap follows people through life

Patients from minority ethnic backgrounds often have to demonstrate higher levels of pain, only to receive less effective treatment

The Guardian - UK

Naloxone Access Remains Low Among People Most Likely to Witness an Overdose — Here's How to Get It Right Now

Most Americans who could witness an overdose don't own naloxone. It's OTC at pharmacies. Many states give it free. Here's how to get it, store it, and use it in 2026.

Medical Daily

Synthetic opioids: can Europe keep up with a new drug created every week?

Fifty new drugs were detected across Europe in 2025 alone, many of them highly potent synthetic opioids. Can the EU’s drugs strategy keep pace with an increasingly dangerous and fast-moving drug landscape?

Euronews

Antidepressants and antipsychotics could serve as alternatives to opioids, study finds

Medications that target depression, anxiety and poor sleep could help treat pain without opioids’ addictive properties

The Guardian - US

"I met God when I was high on opioids! It was a spectacular moment of realisation." Garbage's Shirley Manson on love, grief, and that beachball incident

Garbage and Skunk Anansie embark on a co-headlining UK tour next week

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More Than 50,000 Fake Pills Laced With Deadly Opioids Seized Across Europe Amid Overdose Fears

Over 50,000 counterfeit opioid tablets were seized in Europe in 2024, highlighting a growing crisis. Authorities warn these pills, often disguised as legitimate medications, pose significant health risks.

Radio France Internationale

Europe faces growing threat from synthetic opioids and new drugs, report warns

Highly potent synthetic opioids are spreading through Europe's fast-changing drug market, linked to hundreds of deaths as traffickers shift to smaller ports and new smuggling methods, the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) has warned.

Euronews

New health risks emerge as Europe’s drug market grows more complex, EU agency warns

Europe’s drug market is growing more complex, with potent opioids, stronger cannabis and new substances raising health risks, the EU agency warns.

International Business Times UK

Drug Kingpin Linked to Fatal Nitazene Deaths Had Secret Cache of 5,000 Child Abuse Images in Sick Double Life

Robert Poleszak admitted creating over 5,000 child abuse images, exposing a disturbing double life involving drug trafficking and child exploitation.

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'Rhino Tranq' Is in the Drug Supply and Naloxone Won't Stop It: A Growing Overdose Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight

When emergency medical teams respond to an overdose call, their most reliable tool has long been naloxone — a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of opioids and has saved hundreds of thousands of lives since the fentanyl crisis began.

The Economic Times

Indian pharma firms flood west Africa with powerful opioids despite crackdown: AFP investigation

Indian pharmaceutical firms are exporting millions of dollars worth of powerful tapentadol opioids to West Africa, fueling a deadly drugs epidemic, according to an AFP investigation. Researchers found these high-strength pills are being added to the addictive "zombie drug" kush, leading to a surge in overdose deaths and addiction across…

The Independent UK

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's settlement, by the numbers

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma's deal to resolve thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids is taking effect Friday and the company is being replaced by a new entity

The Independent UK

Purdue Pharma to be sentenced in criminal opioids case, allowing settlement money to flow

A judge is expected to sentence OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to forfeit $225 million to the U.S. government

LiveScience

New pain-relief opioid could be much less addictive than morphine, rodent study finds

A new and potentially safer opioid has been tested in lab rats, and the results suggest it relieves pain with a lower risk of addiction than other drugs in its class.

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CDC Health Advisory: The ‘Rhino Tranq’ Overdose Warning for Seniors on Pain Meds

A new health advisory is raising serious concerns about a dangerous drug trend that many Americans—especially seniors—may not even realize exists. Health officials, including the...

The Guardian - US

Kratom poisonings soar in US as experts blame synthetic versions and caution against bans

Experts say natural kratom may offer benefits and blame synthetic derivatives for surge in poisonings noted by CDC

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