Scientists are racing to redesign how powerful painkillers work, aiming to keep the relief that opioids provide while ...
A new treatment might just be hope for many people living with chronic pain. In a recent preclinical study, researchers ...
A preclinical study uncovered a new gene therapy that targets pain centers in the brain while eliminating the risk of ...
A preclinical study uncovered a new gene therapy that targets pain centers in the brain while eliminating the risk of ...
Days as a trainer at Monmouth Park can be long and hard for 63-year-old Anthony Margotta Jr. But as someone who spent years wrestling an addiction to drugs and alcohol, Margotta said he “can’t take ...
Schedule 2 narcotics, including Morphine Sulfate, are displayed for a photograph in Carmichael, Calif. Pharmacists tell GBH News they’re struggling to order injectable morphine sulfate for end-of-life ...
NO LONGER HUMAN (177 pp.)—Osamu Dazai—New Directions ($3.50). One day in 1948, aged 38, Japanese Novelist Osamu Dazai committed suicide by jumping into Tokyo’s Tamagawa Reservoir. It was Dazai’s fifth ...
In the mythological version of the 1950s that lives on in the popular imagination, everything was bright and clean, and everyone was charmingly naive. In the real 1950s, American life was quite a bit ...
Mallory Berry was ready to give up. It was 2019, and her addiction—prescription opioids had led her to heroin—had left her bedridden. An infection had eaten through parts of her pelvic bones, stomach ...