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The unanimous decision is a good first step for getting law enforcement out of prescription decisions.

Science’s understanding of how the body senses tissue damage and perceives it as pain has progressed tremendously over the past several years.

The lawsuit accused them of causing a health crisis by distributing 81 million pills over eight years in one West Virginia county ravaged by opioid addiction.

Device which can dissolve in the body represents an ‘engineering approach to treating pain’

The device could provide an alternative to opioids and other highly addictive drugs, researchers say.

Without the ability to feel pain, life is more dangerous. To avoid injury, pain tells us to use a hammer more gently, wait for the soup to cool or put on gloves in a snowball fight. Those with rare inherited disorders that leave them without the ability to feel pain…

The Biden administration says it has a plan to curb fatal overdoses by 13% by 2025. But as more synthetic opioids reach the U.S., there's skepticism interdiction can slow the flow of deadly drugs.

Evidence that cannabis can function as a substitute for prescription drugs, particularly opioids seems to be growing, with more research being conducted.

Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey A. Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids.

Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids

Currently, patients in seven states can tell their physicians they don’t want to be treated with opioids in any health care setting, even during surgery. While unnecessary opioid exposure is a big reason behind the opioid epidemic in the U.S., we believe that non-opioid directives that allow patients to opt…