(Natural News) Data from a newly released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that nearly a quarter of a million Americans have died in the last two decades from overdosing on opioid drugs — a number four times the number of U.S. casualties from the entire Vietnam War. The research, which looked at […]

(Natural News) The opioid epidemic that is currently plaguing the United States is no longer a secret; millions of citizens across the nation are struggling with an addiction to the prescription painkillers. One of the primary defenses for these often-harmful drugs is that so many people take them to relieve unyielding and insufferable pain. But […]

(Natural News) Chronic pain often pushes people to use opioid painkillers such as morphine and Vicodin, which may leave sufferers with an increased risk of prescription opioid addiction. Millions of Americans see their doctors for chronic pains, and doctors, in turn, resolve to prescribe these medications for immediate relief. Researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) are […]

(Natural News) Using antithrombotic or blood-thinning medications was found to increase the risk of hematuria, or the presence of blood in urine, and other related complications. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that antithrombotic medications such as warfarin and aspirin may cause adverse health events. The study involved 2,518,064 […]

(Natural News) The country’s opioid epidemic involves not only current prescription opioid users, but their immediate family members as well. According to a report from Marissa J. Seamans of the John Hopkins Univeristy Bloomberg School of Public Health, living in a household with a prescription opioid user may cause others in the household to become […]

(Natural News) The business practices of Big Pharma are abhorrent, but some people manage to avoid falling victim to the inflated prices of brand-name medications by getting generic pills. Unfortunately, that is looking less and less like a viable alternative as more information about extensive price fixing among generic drug companies comes to light. Now, […]

(Natural News) Strategies currently employed for treating patients with a myriad of chronic diseases are financially burdening their country’s health systems and individuals unnecessarily, a global study initiated by the National University of Singapore and the University of Melbourne in Australia has revealed. According to experts, the current clinical practice of handling each disease in isolation […]

(Natural News) Many health experts have recently begun finding more evidence on the risks of painkillers. This evidence includes the dangers of taking too many analgesics such as paracetamol and the potential damage it can cause to our liver, kidneys, and other body systems. According to a study, which was published in the online journal Endocrine Connections, pregnant women […]

(Natural News) The depths of corruption within federal agencies know no bounds: A backchannel at the FDA has given Big Pharma the ability to turn ordinary nutritional supplements into expensive medications and treatments — and also gives drug companies the ability to file requests that ultimately lead to the supplement version being removed from the […]

(Natural News) The United States has been deeply entrenched in the opioid epidemic for years. Dozens of cities, counties and states have filed suit against a number of the nation’s top pharmaceutical industry for their role in creating a drug epidemic which has destroyed thousands of families and claimed thousands of lives. Big Pharma has […]