The Food and Drug Administration has approved an Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to study mitragynine, the main psychoactive compound…
Over the course of 2026 a growing number of headlines have invited the public to panic about cychlorphine, a relatively…
A legal battle between Florida hospitals and the nation’s biggest pharmacy chains came to a sudden end May 26, when…
Nine months after Rhode Island passed a law regulating the sale of kratom, the partial opioid agonist that has divided…
In 2019, Epic—the company behind the MyChart health care software used by over 190 million patients—developed an exciting new feature:…
A minor media frenzy has been forming around cychlorphine, a novel synthetic opioid described as the "next killer drug" taking…
“He was awesome,” Alexis Pleus, executive director of Truth Pharm, a small harm reduction organization based in Binghamton, New York,…
Afghanistan used to have the distinction of producing the opium for 95 per cent of the heroin on the European…
On September 12, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) announced that 7-Hydroxymitragynine had been linked to three…
With Dr. Melody Glenn’s new book—Mother of Methadone: A Doctor’s Quest, A Forgotten History, And A Modern-Day Crisis—Dr. Marie Nyswander…