The recent household drug use survey revealed that prescription drug abuse is a fast-emerging public health problem that has led to increasing poly-drug use amongst drug dependent persons. It is undermining all efforts to deepen socio-economic development and is associated with crime and lawlessness. Indeed, every year millions of young Nigerians ages between 10-25, are…

Several reports have alerted to the rising cases of narcotic substances’ abuse in the country. Top on the list is the codeine crisis. There is also the opioids crisis in the United States (U.S.) that led to thousands of deaths. Codeine is an opioid used to treat pain, as a cough medicine, and for diarrhoea.…

Nearly one in three Canadians (29 percent) have used "some form of opioids" in the past five years, according to data released Tuesday as widespread fentanyl overdoses continue to kill.

A tiny snail may offer an alternative to opioids for pain relief. Scientists at the University of Utah have found a compound that blocks pain by targeting a pathway not associated with opioids.