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Findings remain clinically relevant because pain could be used as a marker for increased risk of future cognitive decline.(Photo: Pixabay)

Older people suffering chronic pain risk dementia

The study reveals three reasons for the association between chronic pain and dementia.

6 Jun 2017 1:48 PM IST

More than 64,000 died of drug overdoses last year in the US, most from opioids. (Photo: Pixabay)

Take all their excuses away': Hard cases in heroin fight

Nobody knows the best way to measure success in the fight against addiction.

5 Dec 2017 5:18 PM IST

Study suggests that opiod users do not get treatment (Photo: Pixabay)

Opioid users don't combat addiction

Majority of those who got medicine received buprenorphine, that helps reduce cravings

24 Jun 2017 3:03 PM IST

The foods that ranked top of the scale contained cheese.

Study suggest that cheese may be addictive!

Cheese contains casein, present in all dairy products, and which can trigger the brain's opioid receptors, which are...

17 Dec 2016 12:08 AM IST

Its easy to source synthetic opioids online from Chinese vendors (Photo: AP)

Some facts about US's synthetic-opioid epidemic

Nearly two-thirds of the 61 kilograms (134 pounds) of fentanyl seized by U.S. customs last year came from Mexico.

21 Dec 2016 6:34 PM IST