New study suggests opioid painkillers could do more harm than good in recovering from minor surgery Benjamin Shingler · CBC News · Posted: Jul 04, 2022 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: July 4, 2022 ...

Warren Homan went into his doctor’s office with serious back pain, and walked out with a prescription for Oxycodone. Nine years and at least 11 different opioid painkiller prescriptions later ...

New study suggests opioid painkillers could do more harm than good in recovering from minor surgery New research, published in The Lancet, suggests opioid painkillers are not always beneficial in ...

I routinely see patients whose lives have been ruined by opioid painkillers — drugs like morphine, oxycodone and hydromorphone. Most of these patients started with back pain or arthritis; others ...

FDA approves painkiller designed to eliminate the risk of addiction associated with opioids By: Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press Posted: 5:16 PM CST Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 Last Modified: 4: ...

There is no such thing as a safe opioid. That's the message of a new study released this week. American researchers found that tramadol, an increasingly prescribed post-surgery painkiller that was ...

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine have developed an experimental compound that could deliver effective pain relief while avoiding the adverse effects associated with opioids. The ...

Babies born to opioid-dependent mothers are typically whisked away to intensive care units and given morphine. But an innovative program is seeing shocking results with far simpler treatment ...

Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press Jan 30, 2025 3:16 PM Jan 30, 2025 3:35 PM ...

Vertex began researching the drug in the 2000s, when overdoses were rocketing upward, principally driven by mass prescribing of opioid painkillers for common ailments like arthritis and back pain.