Opioid addiction

Infographic: Deadly opioid overdoses are way more common than we think
Researchers looked at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on about 630,000 people who died of drug ...

Powerful psychedelic drug ibogaine could help people kick opioid addictions
Somewhere around two million Americans suffer from opioid-related substance use disorder. Treatments like buprenorphine and methadone calm the brain circuits affected by opioids, reducing ...

Can deep brain stimulation treat opioid addiction?
A surgeon has implanted electrodes in the brain of a patient suffering from severe opioid use disorder, hoping to cure ...

This ‘psychedelic’ treatment can cure opioid addition. It also might kill you
With proper treatment, withdrawing from opioids won’t kill you, but it can make you want to die. … The desperation ...

Herbal remedy kratom linked to seizures, addiction and deaths
The herbal remedy kratom, often touted as an alternative treatment for opioid withdrawal or chronic pain, is in for more ...

FDA warns kratom sellers to stop making unproven claims about chronic pain, opioid addiction benefits
The Food and Drug Administration is still pressing down hard on kratom—the plant treatment that adherents say has helped them ...

Making a case against ‘aggressive’ restrictions on opioid prescriptions
[Stefan] Kertesz, a primary care physician who also specializes in addiction medicine, had not spent his career investigating long-term opioid ...

Marijuana compound CBD could help people fight opioid addiction
A new study out [May 21] is the latest to suggest that cannabis—or at least a key ingredient of it—might ...