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 Marianne Jauncey still remembers the first drug overdose she witnessed just months into her new job at a community health service supporting sex workers,…
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…
Tapentadol has overtaken oxycodone as the most prescribed opioid in Australia, according to research that shows its use increased fivefold between 2015 and 2022. The…
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…
People who use illicit stimulants are increasingly turning to diverted ADHD drugs, a national survey suggests. Some 54% of people who regularly used ecstasy or…
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…
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