Opioids

Clinics have been offering online consultations.

The addiction management method used in Europe and Canada has met determined opposition in the US.

An NHS campaign aims to get patients to look for alternatives to long-term painkiller use.

The uptick is due to a decrease in death rates from drug overdoses and cancer.

Opioids work only for some with long-term pain - so why are they still being given to patients?

The painkiller is said to be up to 100 times stronger than morphine and is entering UK markets.

The family took far more money out of the OxyContin-producer after it admitted misleading marketing.

Schools should teach risks of prescription drugs, says a mother whose son was killed by tramadol.

Four addicts will have brains "hacked" to control their addictions in the first trial of its kind in the US.

A review by the local authority comes after the number of drug deaths in Middlesbrough doubled.