Now, a drug researcher warns that speedballing has become a “widespread public health crisis” that requires a multi-faceted ...

Prescription opioid abuse and its downstream effects have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. On May 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved a step closer to providing help to ...

Dating back to the 1970s, the term speedballing originally referred to the combination of heroin and cocaine. Combining stimulants and opioids – the former’s “rush” with the latter’s calming effect – ...

After they changed the protocol and asked all prescription opioid users about symptoms the estimate of people with opioid use disorder jumped from 1.4 million in 2019 to 4.8 million in 2021; by ...

A breakthrough drug from Duke University, SBI-810, promises strong pain relief without the pitfalls of opioids. Unlike traditional painkillers that trigger multiple brain pathways—and often ...

President Donald Trump posted a letter to social media Thursday evening announcing Canadian goods will be subject to a 35% ...

May 9 (UPI) --The number of Americans using illicit opioids, including fentanyl, is 20 times higher than previously estimated, according to a study published Friday by researchers from the RAND ...

For the first time in two decades, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new class of medication that provides an alternative to addictive opioids for patients looking to manage ...

M allory Berry was ready to give up. It was 2019, and her addiction—prescription opioids had led her to heroin—had left her bedridden. An infection had eaten through parts of her pelvic bones ...

For much of the early 2000s, as the opioid epidemic grew, opioid marketing was overwhelmingly targeted to white, upper-middle class people, as well as rural white working-class communities.