Opioids no better than placebo for short-term lower back and neck pain
28 June 2023
People who took the opioid oxycodone or a placebo for six weeks reported similar pain scores for acute discomfort in their lower back or neck
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Why expanding access to Narcan in the US won’t solve the opioid crisis
14 April 2023
The US has made a medication that rapidly reverses opioid overdoses available without prescription – it will no doubt prevent some deaths, but it’s not enough to tackle the opioid epidemic
Newly found brain pathway could be key to reducing opioid addiction
8 February 2023
Researchers have identified a brain pathway in mice that governs the development of opioid tolerance. If the same exists in humans, treatments that inhibit it could prevent opioid addiction
Opioid levels in US wastewater spiked during the early pandemic months
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In the early months of the covid-19 pandemic, wastewater samples from Kentucky and Tennessee had a 72 per cent increase in hydrocodone, plus spikes in antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs
Fatal cardiac arrests could be hiding opioid overdose deaths in the US
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