Clinical toxicologists are warning that misuse of the antidiarrhoeal loperamide is leading to prolonged ECG intervals in patients with opioid use disorder. Some patients are…
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new drug for moderate to severe acute pain in 25 years. Called suzetrigine, the first-in-class…
Dr Jessamine Soderstrom is one of two doctors behind Australia’s national program for identifying new illicit drugs appearing on the black market. It is called…
The antispasmodic baclofen, commonly prescribed off label for alcohol dependency, has been implicated in 102 deaths since 2000, Australian researchers say. More than 50% of…
“When I first started researching overdoses, I was told there was nothing to study, that young people dropped down dead from overdoses because they didn’t…
Patients who have initiated opioids in the previous month are at a higher risk of an opioid use disorder diagnosis compared with patients who have…
US-based tobacco giant Philip Morris International will sell Vectura Group for less than $300 million almost three years after it bought the respiratory medicine company…
Oxycodone use fell 45% between 2019 and 2020, with no significant rebound since, Australian wastewater analysis suggests. Researchers have attributed the decline to policies including…
Should regularly using illicit drugs away from work automatically disqualify you from practising medicine? Some argue that doctors using recreational drugs hurts the medical profession’s…
A GP took “increasingly desperate” actions to get a patient to change practices, including offering a bribe and faking an assault, a UK tribunal has…
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