Treading the tightrope of opioid restrictions
Published in Nature
US efforts to control opioid prescriptions are having unintended effects on people with chronic pain.
Tracing the US opioid crisis to its roots
Published in Nature
Understanding how the opioid epidemic arose in the United States could help to predict how it might spread to other countries.
Opioids
Published in Nature
Escaping the drug crisis.
The painful truth about pain
Published in Nature
A harrowing medical experience gave Travis N. Rieder more insight than he would have wished for into how people end up hooked on opioids.
Opioids by the numbers
Published in Nature
The opioid crisis is now an epidemic that involves both prescribed and illicit drugs. Tackling it is more urgent than ever.
Keep quantum computing global and open
Published in Nature
The race to cash in is draining universities of talent, fracturing the field and closing off avenues of enquiry, warn Jacob D. Biamonte, Pavel Dorozhkin and Igor Zacharov. A scientist works on the D-Wave 2000Q system.
Mitigating opioids’ harm
Published in Nature
Ideally, opioid addiction could be prevented altogether. But failing that, strategies to make drug use safer can curb opioid-related death.
Colombia short on political will to protect pollinators
Published in Nature
Tackle the epidemic, not the opioids
Published in Nature
Unless attention turns to what leads to addiction and overdose, treatment will always be out of date, says Judith Feinberg. “The narrow focus on opioids means we cannot keep up with the drug du jour cycle.”
What the data say about police shootings
Published in Nature
How do racial biases play into deadly encounters with the police? Researchers wrestle with incomplete data to reach answers. Credit: William Widmer/New York Times/eyevineDemonstrators protest gun violence in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2016.
