Opioids Blog Posts

• Do prescribed opioids increase self-harm and suicide?

  18 Mar 2026

  • Ian Hamilton

  
• Fatal drug overdose in healthcare workers: occupational hazards and systemic factors

  17 Dec 2025

  • Amelia Talbot

  
• Acute pain management following dental extraction

  24 Mar 2023

  • Derek Richards

  
• Oxycodone for acute dental pain?

  18 Jan 2023

  • Derek Richards

  
• Pulpal anaesthesia for symptomatic irreversible pulpitis in mandibular molars

  25 Feb 2020

  • Colin Levey

  
• Prescription drug misuse in women: US review inconclusive

  07 Mar 2019

  • Rob Poole

  
• The US opioid crisis: quantifying the impact

  10 Aug 2018

  • Emma Wincup

  
• Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block: improving anaesthetic success in patients with irreversible pulpitis

  13 Apr 2018

  • Derek Richards

  
• Non-medical use of prescription drugs #NonMedicalDrugs

  08 Mar 2018

  • Ian Hamilton
  • and Julia Buxton

  
• Opiate substitution therapy: supervised-consumption vs take-home doses

  04 Jan 2018

  • Vicky Carlisle