Science news articles about 'opiate drugs'

... baby is born every hour addicted to opiate drugs in the United States, according to new research ... trends in neonatal abstinence syndrome and mothers using opiate drugs. "Recently, the Centers for Disease Control ...

... at the same receptor through which morphine and related opiate drugs achieve their pain-relieving effects ... effects that cannot be achieved by systemic administration of opiate drugs, " Fink says. "This trial is the first step ...

... at codeine. We are also working toward the synthesis of codeine and other opiate drugs more efficiently and economically in controlled bioprocessing ... now makes it possible to use microorganisms to produce opiate drugs and other important pharmaceuticals." One of the next steps ...

... , the Guardian can reveal.Nearly one in five dosage errors involving morphine, diamorphine and similar opiate drugs resulted in some harm to NHS patients ...