A pill-popping workplace culture where colleagues take codeine as hangover cures and at break times is leading to an increased demand for addiction treatment and a need for education, according to ...

Switching the painkiller codeine to a prescription-only medicine in 2018 led to a 37 percent overall drop in its consumption across Australia, according to new findings from wastewater sampling ...

Cough syrup containing codeine could only be available via a GP under new proposals. (Getty Images) Cough syrup – or codeine linctus – could be made prescription-only over concerns of addiction among ...

For a medicine so commonly found in bathroom cabinets and high street pharmacies, codeine has a surprisingly complicated story. It sits at the intersection of pain relief, genetics, public health and ...

Nigeria faces a rising epidemic of substance misuse, with cocaine, codeine, and even caffeine addiction representing serious public health concerns. While attention typically centres on illegal drugs, ...

Acceptable drugs aimed at easing modern stress have spawned a new breed of 'respectable' addicts. A hidden cohort of "respectable" drug addicts has emerged in Ireland in recent years, with growing ...

Fears switching the painkiller codeine to a prescription only medicine would lead to more people misusing stronger painkillers are unfounded, according to research published today. Our research, in ...