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Gas stations and head shops across the United States are still selling dangerous "elixirs" that cause life-threatening seizures and blackouts

RX and Medicine

Gas Stations Are Selling a Sleazy Drug That Gives You Seizures

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a huge new study, researchers have found more evidence than ever that drugs like Ozempic can help with alcohol and opioid addiction.

Health & Medicine

Ozempic Could Be Used to Treat Alcohol and Drug Addiction, Study Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

People who take Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-based injectables Ozempic and Wegovy seem to be way less likely to die from overdosing on opioids.

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People Taking Semaglutide Appear to Be WAY Less Likely to Die of an Opioid Overdose

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are watching in disbelief as drug overdose deaths in the US are suddenly starting to drop off a cliff.

Experts Puzzled as Drug Overdose Deaths Suddenly Start Dropping

By Victor Tangermann

As the opioid crisis worsens, one pharmaceutical company has used some impressive biology to create a non-addictive, non-opioid painkiller.

New Non-Opioid Drug Blocks Pain Signals Before They Can Reach Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to several lawsuits filed in the US, people are dying after overdosing on an herbal supplement called kratom.

Lawsuits Claim People Are Dying From Taking Kratom

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with a vaccine that can block the effects fentanyl has on the brain in mice, which is being hailed as a "game changer."

New Vaccine Blocks Fentanyl in Brains of Rats

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are developing a lifesaving automatic Narcan injector that may bring harm reduction into the world of medtech.

Prosthetics and Devices

Wearable for Opioid Users Injects Narcan If You Overdose

By Noor Al-Sibai

A cache of horrifying emails show that during the height of the opioid crisis, pharmaceutical execs were hard at work mocking rural Americans.

Pharma Execs Mocked Rural Opioid Addiction in Newly-Released Emails

By Jon Christian

Tiny doses of the psychedelic drug LSD could be an effective painkiller — perhaps as powerful, scientists found, as conventional opioids like morphine.

RX and Medicine

Research: LSD Microdoses as Effective as Opioids at Treating Pain

By Jon Christian

Doctors managed to "delete" opioid addictions from the brains of lab mice by shining an implanted fiber optic light that prevented withdrawal.

Scientists Hack Mouse Brains to “Erase” Opioid Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

A former sales rep recounts the tactics Big Pharma used to convince doctors to prescribe opioids in greater and greater numbers.

RX and Medicine

Drug Rep Exposes How Big Pharma Pushed Opioids

By Kristin Houser

In China, Surgeons Are Treating Addiction With Brain Implants

In China, Surgeons Are Treating Addiction With Brain Implants

By Victor Tangermann

Two top execs at a major pharmaceutical distributor have been criminally charged for unlawfully distributing the drugs fueling the opioid crisis.

Health & Medicine

First Drug Execs Charged for Role In Opioid Epidemic

By Kristin Houser

States Are Approving Cannabis to Fight Opioid Addiction

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States Are Approving Cannabis to Fight Opioid Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers are looking to the resin spurge, a plant with a super-hot active ingredient, as the potential future of pain relief.

Health & Medicine

A Super-Spicy Plant Could Help End the Opioid Crisis

By Kristin Houser