Opioids

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a substance use disorder characterized by cravings for opioids, continued use despite physical and/or psychological deterioration, increased tolerance with use, and withdrawal symptoms after discontinuing opioids.

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Taking a weight-loss drug reduced a craving for opioids

New Research Challenges the Commonly Held View That Opioids Are the Most Powerful Pain Relievers

Surgery patients now less likely to get opioids -- but decline has slowed

Experts Warn Why We Need to Stop Treating Back Pain With Opioids

‘A Monster’: Super Meth and Other Drugs Push Crisis Beyond Opioids

Alternative pain control circuits in the brain produce relief similar to opioids without the downsides

What We Know About Children and Opioids

Why Opioids Are Not the Answer to Your Back Pain: New Study Calls for Medical Rethink

Experts Explain Why We Need to Stop Treating Back Pain With Opioids

Opioids no more effective than placebo for acute back and neck pain

Opioids no better than placebo for short-term lower back and neck pain

Weed Week: New studies confirm cannabis alleviates cancer pain, cuts need for opioids, and improves sleep - Stockhead

Smarter Opioids: A New Approach to Pain Relief Without Addiction

Disturbing Truth: Opioids Dominate as Primary Cause of Poisoning Deaths in Children

Chronic Pain: Could Monoclonal Antibodies Replace Opioids?

The new pain treatments that may finally stem the need for opioids

Expert Explains How Opioids Caused a Celebrity's Gut to Burst

A New Promising Alternative to Opioids for Dental Pain

CVS, Walgreens and Walmart Must Pay $650.5 Million in Ohio Opioids Case

Teva Reaches Tentative $4.25 Billion Settlement Over Opioids