out of 4 people will need access to palliative care, but globally only 14% of patients who need it actually receive it.

A new molecule, based on llama antibodies, could counteract opioid effects by preventing drugs from binding to brain ...

The day before the hearing, the Marshall Project and Reveal reported on a woman who ate a salad with poppy seed dressing ...

Floridians face yet another threat as a tiny little caterpillar roaming around their backyards could cause excruciating pain.

Food and drinks containing unwashed poppyseeds can make people test positive for opioids—and can in some cases be fatal ...

According to Homeland Security, the Canadian citizen was smuggling the meth using cavities of designer concrete coffee tables ...

somniferum, appropriately followed by three of P. rhoeas, all collected in India during the early 1800s. From 1914, morphine ampoules were needed en masse to aid millions of soldiers injured in the ...

It’s that or suicide. I’ve spent quite a lot of time thinking, “How do I accumulate enough morphine to do this for myself?” I haven’t done it yet.’ She laughs, possibly at herself for ...

Up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine, fentanyl has legitimate use as an anesthetic and is also used to treat serious pain, like that in cancer patients. But it ...

A nurse has been suspended after forging colleagues' signatures to get hold of morphine. Raniel Cang worked at the Glenroyd Care Home in Blackpool, run by Barchester Healthcare, when he breached ...

Raniel Cang worked at the Glenroyd Care Home, run by Barchester Healthcare, when he breached procedures to access morphine from the medicine cupboard at the home. Between November 2022 and February ...