Doctors petition FDA for 'black box' warning on combining painkillers, tranquilizers. Patients with acute pain, such as that caused by an injury, usually need prescription opiates for only three days.

War on Drugs. If Opiates Are Killing Americans, Why Won't the FDA Let Us Try an Alternative? As the DEA relentlessly tightens regulations on pain meds, the FDA refuses to approve a safer ...

Many veterans had come to the Tomah VA after receiving large doses of opiates in private practice or during their military service, he said, and he worked to taper them back to safer levels. He ...

Patients in the cannabis-opiates study experienced no major side effects such as nausea, vomiting or loss of appetite. A scale is used to weigh cannabis before it is put in the vaporizer to ensure ...

Children born dependent on heroin and other opiates may be more likely to perform poorly academically as they get older, according to a new study from Australia. CNN values your feedback 1.

Parents, high schools and colleges are feeding an addiction of sorts— abetting an epidemic of perfectionism and expectation while promoting a “high” of status and prestige. After two decades ...

Texas hemp users stockpile products and consider moving out of state as ban looms, saying the medical marijuana program is ...

Jamie Lee Curtis recently spoke on how she struggled with her addiction to opiates as a young actress.. During a recent appearance on Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski‘s MSNBC show Morning Joe ...

Less than 24 hours after a mother in New York gave birth, her baby was taken from her after she tested positive for opiates — despite claiming she did not taking any drugs.

Urine tests can detect opiates in your system for up to 3 days, depending on which drug or medication you used. The period of detection for heroin may be as short as one day, while codeine and ...

A Final Goodbye to Opiates A Final Goodbye to Opiates A filmmaker captures her attempt to come off the synthetic opiates that kept her off heroin for the past six years.

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who is concerned about their niece and their heavy use of opiates. Dreamstime/TCA ...