The OECD's conclusions are stark. It refers to a "surge in overdose deaths" and argues over-prescription of painkillers by doctors and the illicit drugs trade have fuelled a "mounting health and ...

Paracetamol doesn’t reduce inflammation. But it can relieve pain and reduce a high temperature. Opiate painkillers such as codeine work by blocking pain messages in your brain and spinal cord. Because ...

It’s an opiate, so is converted into morphine in ... It’s often given with other painkillers, such as with paracetamol in co-codamol, because codeine doesn’t actually act at the site of ...

Nigel Parsley has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock highlighting the case of a woman who died after obtaining opiate painkillers online. Debbie Headspeath, 41, got the medication ...

A CDC report released this summer found that people who abused opiate painkillers were 40 times as likely to abuse heroin. Here's a chart looking at overdose deaths from opioid pain relievers and ...