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The FDA has approved suzetrigine, a groundbreaking non-opioid painkiller that targets pain at its source, offering a safer, addiction-free pain-relief treatment.
Long-anticipated changes to how Australians buy paracetamol are on their way in a bid to reduce harms. Here’s what’s changing.
Here are some steps you can take to use opioids more safely and effectively at home.
A person dies of opioid overdose once every 13 minutes in the US. A researcher proposes a way using existing technology to remove the opioid target in people to prevent overdoses.
Gyms have gone mad for these bits of neoprene. Yet researchers are still scrambling to catch up.
All the guidelines recommend paracetamol for pain relief despite the lack of evidence for the drug’s effectiveness.
About 8% of the population is unable to metabolise codeine, and a small number metabolise it at a much larger extent.
Paracetamol is one of the most widely used medicines in Australia and around the world with millions of doses administered worldwide each day.
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