Browsing: Opioids

“When your whole body is a giant toothache, nothing fixes it,” observes Charley Pavlosky, 65, recalling the systemic pain that…

The US is in the throes of a drug overdose crisis. “Morphine [an opiate] and other prescription-painkiller abuse is more…

You’ve heard about misreported causes of death a lot recently. For example, the debate rages on about the actual number…

About 80% of all adults experience disabling low back pain at some point. Physical therapy and exercise are now the recommended back pain treatments.

From the outside, a person with fibromyalgia looks perfectly normal. But on the inside, it can feel like the pain…

Most infants born with Prenatal Opioid Exposure (POE) look and seem completely unaffected – even those that go through withdrawal. A new meta-analysis shows that brain development and motor skills in children exposed to opioids in pregnancy lag behind other children significantly.

Less than 40% of senior adults report adverse events they experience with a medication to their doctor. A retrospective study…

The FDA has issued another warning about the herbal supplement kratom, this time noting that unsafe levels of heavy metals…

The announcement last week took just about everyone by surprise. Scott Gottlieb, MD, the FDA’s well-respected commissioner, would be stepping…

Just 30 minutes of exercise a day can reduce blood pressure in older people who are overweight or obese almost…