Is this cannabis-based alternative to opioid painkillers the key to treating chronic pain?
But now Vertanical, a German pharmaceutical company, claims it has designed a non-addictive alternative to opioid painkillers ...
London Evening Standard6d
Is this cannabis-based alternative to opioid painkillers the key to treating chronic pain?
But now Vertanical, a German pharmaceutical company, claims it has designed a non-addictive alternative to opioid painkillers based on the cannabis plant rather than the poppy. Called VER-01 ...
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Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
Opioids, a class of drugs derived from the opium poppy plant, can be divided into two broad categories: legally manufactured medications and illicit narcotics. Opioid medications, including ...
Opium Farming Takes Root In Myanmar's War-Torn Landscape
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.
The Diplomat13d
Getting Out of Afghanistan’s Opium Quagmire
In 2021, the opiate economy ... those before them. Poppy fields were destroyed after the Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada decreed that it would be prohibited to grow them because ...
Digital Journal25d
Opium farming takes root in Myanmar’s war-wracked landscape
Myanmar’s opiate economy — including the value of ... “Most of the farmers who plant poppy are displaced,” he said. “Residents who can’t live in their villages and fled to the jungle ...