Recently, a documentary from BBC on how some opioid-based medications especially ones containing tramadol and tapentadol, are imported into the country and abused by mostly young people in low ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for the treatment of moderate-to-severe pain that is a non-opioid and carries less risks of addiction than opioids. Journavx ...

Around 10% duty is imposed on pharmaceutical products from the US, while barely any duty is imposed on Indian drugs in the US ...

In the quest to develop a safe, effective alternative to opioids, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in ...

Opioids are derived from the opium poppy plant (natural opioids) or synthesised in laboratories (synthetic opioids). The EU's retail heroin market is estimated to be worth at least €5.2 billion ...

On Wednesday, February 12, 32 parcels of poppy ... poppy plant are controlled under Schedule II of the federal Controlled Substances Act, as morphine and codeine are naturally occurring opiates ...

Myanmar's opiate economy — including the value of ... "Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced," he said. "Residents who can't live in their villages and fled to the jungle are working ...

How fentanyl flooded into the illicit opioid market in the United States. Unlike heroin, which is derived from the opium poppy ... to wait for a new crop to grow; if they have the precursor ...