American Council on Science and HealthOpinion

A Decade of Suffering: How the Opioid Panic Abandoned Pain Patients

While pill mills, overdose, and irresponsible prescribing were real concerns, the response hardened into an overgeneralized ...
Medical Xpress

Abnormally slow heart rate associated with xylazine-fentanyl overdose

Researchers have identified bradycardia—an abnormally low heart rate—as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This breakthrough finding from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai may help ...
Healio

Opioid overdose deaths decreasing, but concerns ‘evolving’

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Opioid-related overdose deaths dropped from around 110,000 in 2023 to about 75,000 in 2024. An AMA report also ...
The Atlantic

The Real Reason for the Drop in Fentanyl Overdoses

For two decades, the United States and Canada have struggled with a drug epidemic. From 2003 to 2022, annual overdose deaths in the United States rose from less than 26,000 to nearly 108,000—becoming ...