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Despite warnings of potential abuse, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new opioid drug last week that is 10 times stronger than fentanyl. The drug, Dsuvia, is a new formulation of sufentanil, a powerful painkiller that has been used in hospitals intravenously for decades. The new version is a tablet that is administered under […]

The pharmaceutical company responsible for flooding the United States with the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin has now patented a new drug to treat opioid addiction. Rhodes Technologies Inc. filed for a patent earlier this year for a new form of buprenorphine, a mild opioid marketed under the brand name Suboxone to treat addiction to stronger drugs. […]

The Opioid Crisis Could Cost a Half Million Lives in the Next Decade | Phillip Smith The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released in mid-August, showed a record 72,000 drug overdose deaths last year, with 49,000 related to heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioids. According to the authors of a study released last week […]

With opioid addictions hitting the country, researchers are desperately looking for a better alternative, and all eyes are on medical marijuana. Legislators are doing their best by speeding the process… The post Is Medical Marijuana the Key to Illinois Opioid Menace? appeared first on MedicalMarijuanaBlog.com.