Kratom is a substance derived from the leaf of a Southeast Asian tree that has opioid-like effects. People take it to relax or elevate their mood and energy. Many...
The opioid crisis has been making headlines since it first began in the late 1990s. Only in the mid-2010s did we start to hear more about a particular opioid...
Buprenorphine (more commonly known by its brand names, Suboxone, Subutex and Zubsolv) is one of just three federally approved medications to treat opioid addiction. But because of its intense...
An estimated 2.4 million people in the US struggle with prescription painkiller addiction, and almost half a million suffer from heroin addiction. Unfortunately, much of that has to do...
The opioid crisis is the most pressing public health issue of our times: it destroys lives and divides communities, and opioid addiction treatment is often inconsistent or inaccessible to...
During World War II, German doctors used a synthetic drug to treat soldiers when they ran out of morphine. The drug, which was developed a decade before by German...
Self-medicating depression with opioids. Life is not without its challenges. Sometimes the struggles, pain, suffering and heartbreak it involves can feel like too much to bear. If this...