All opiate use articles

  • An image showing the book cover of Fentanyl Inc
    Review

    Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

    2020-06-19T08:30:00Z

    Journalist Ben Westhoff lifts the lid on the biggest drugs crisis to have ever hit the western world

  • Oxycodone pill bottles
    Podcast

    Oxycodone and hydrocodone

    2019-12-06T11:45:00Z

    Frances Addison examines how our quest to control and manage pain has led to a modern medical crisis, as opioids oxycodone and hydrocodone are among the most abused prescription medications in the US

  • Silhouette of man drinking alcohol
    Podcast

    Baclofen

    2019-08-02T09:30:00Z

    One doctor's battle with alcoholism and self-experimentation with baclofen led to a rush of people desperate to try the drug to curb their addictions. But are we simply replacing one problem with another, asks Enna Guadalupe