Smoking instead of injecting drugs can reduce harm, but a new study shows opioid smokers are four times as likely to suffer ...

Emergency doctors in Portland started noticing something unusual in recent years: more patients arriving with severe burns ...

Polysubstance use has become a defining feature of the U.S. overdose crisis in the past decade. While not every overdose involves multiple substances, a significant and growing proportion includes ...

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But people using the injections risk losing thousands of pounds due to confusion about whether they should be declared as medical treatments for a health condition or as a cosmetic treatment on their ...

Weight loss drugs are popular for helping patients quickly shed pounds Drugs like Ozempic are controversial for their side effects Side effects of some drugs can range from nausea to kidney failure ...