From acne to chronic pain relief, the market for transdermal patches is growing. Lounge explores the science, and reasons for ...

While synthetic opiods are a relatively new class of drugs, opium has a long destructive history in trade wars and warfare, ...

Background: Fentanyl, a short-acting synthetic opioid, has a pharmacokinetic profile suited to fast relief of brief episodic pain. Objective: To characterize the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic ...

Newly-inaugurated West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey started off his second day with a list of executive orders, among those ...

The final kinetic and dynamic model developed for fentanyl (using the parameters in Table 1 and Table 3) was used to simulate the time course of pain scores expected after the administration of ...

Two Chinese citizens are standing trial in New York for charges related to the illicit fentanyl trade in a landmark case as officials aim to crack down on the movement of the deadly drug and its ...

A stealthy and efficient killer, fentanyl is increasingly finding its way into illicit drugs and into the United States. The high potency makes it ideal for smugglers–it takes up less space ...

Canadian criminals are not dumping large amounts of illegally manufactured fentanyl into the United States, the RCMP says, refuting president-elect Donald Trump’s accusation that significant ...