Recently, a documentary from BBC on how some opioid-based medications especially ones containing tramadol and tapentadol, are imported into the country and abused by mostly young people in low ...

De Orta also tells stories, for example about the Persian opium enthusiast he met when serving as a physician at the court of ...

The price of opium in Afghanistan surged to $750 per kilogram in 2024, a tenfold increase compared to two years prior, ...

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar’s remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...

For farmers displaced by conflict, the hardy poppy is the only thing that keeps them from starving. Read more at straitstimes ...

Plant immunity is the inherent or induced capacity of plants to withstand or ward off biological attack by pathogens. Molecules released from pathogens are recognised by plant cell surface ...

As the number of fatal drug overdoses across Connecticut decreased for a third year in a row, more potent opiates and substances ... The addition would help grow the force that has shrunk since ...

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were about 107,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2023. Of those, about 75%, or 81,000, involved opioids.

Widespread access to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) can reduce the risk of suicide by 35% among people with opioid use disorder, according to a new study published in Addiction.