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Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern England
The opioid crisis may have crossed the Atlantic, with signs that opioid painkillers are prescribed more in England in socially-deprived areas in the north
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Pregnant women have to navigate a minefield of painkiller advice
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Trump’s 90-day plan for opioids has failed – here’s a better one
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The doctor who took on big pharma to stem the US opioid epidemic
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Science helped cause the opioid crisis – now it must make amends
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Opioids that hit different brain target could be less addictive
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Californians can now buy marijuana for recreational use
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Shocking drop in life expectancy shows US still in bad health
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Antisense therapy promises to slow Huntington’s disease
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Fentanyl considered for execution cocktail by two US states
Nevada and Nebraska are considering using the opioid drug fentanyl to carry out death penalty executions
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Mind menders: how psychedelic drugs rebuild broken brains
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Medical cannabis vendors must stop making bogus health claims
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Opioid crisis: Trump suggests telling young people drugs are bad
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Marijuana compounds made in GM yeast could help epilepsy
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