30 December 2022 World Treating Chronic Pain Requires More Than Painkillers With scans often showing no damage to people with bad backs, doctors were forced to rethink how they approach pain.
17 September 2019 World Purdue Pharma Files For Bankruptcy In US$10bil Settlement Of Opioid Lawsuits The firm has been accused of fuelling the opioid crisis from marketing OxyContin.
18 July 2019 World Drug Makers Flooded US With 76 Billion Opioid Pills The volume of pain pills sold in the US rose from 8.4 billion in 2006 to 12.6 billion in 2012.