“I’ve always been anti-drugs all my life, it’s just the way I was brought up,” says Mike, 37, from Manchester. “But then I found myself asking people: ‘Do you know anyone selling?’” In 2008, Mike was ...

STOCKED in every high street pharmacy in Britain, it is a drug that’s meant to ease pain – not cause it. And yet, an escalating addiction epidemic in the UK is risking the lives of ordinary people.

A recovering Belfast man has warned of the dangers of the often hidden addiction to over-the-counter medication. Michael Main said at one stage he went down to just four stone in weight and had to ...

A single mum who kept her codeine addiction a secret from her family for three years says the habit landed her in £8k worth of debt. Abby Johnson, 35, was prescribed the painkiller by her GP after a ...

Nicotine use over time increases the speed that codeine is converted into morphine within the brain, by increasing the amount of a specific enzyme, according to new research in rat models. It appears ...

Every day, people embark on the road to recovery from addiction. Some choose—or are remanded by law enforcement—to do it with the help of some type of clinical service, some prefer the support of ...

Three secondary schools in Abuja on Thursday had a heated debate on the ban on codeine-based cough syrup as the solution to drug addiction in the country. The schools slogged it out in the 2018 Abuja ...

During the past 10 years, efforts in pharmacogenomics have generated insights into the efficacy and safety of drugs, enhancing our understanding of the safety profile of even some of the oldest drugs, ...

Aside from genetic differences, maternal characteristics and other clinical factors may also affect pain perception and dose consumption. The objective of this study was to investigate clinical and ...

Rose Cairns receives funding from the NHMRC for suicide prevention research. She has previously been an associate investigator on an untied educational grant from Seqirus to study tapentadol misuse ...