Opioid painkillers are a group of medications derived from the opium poppy. Because of their high level of effectiveness in pain relief, these medications are frequently used when other, less powerful pain-relieving medications fail to produce results. Unfortunately, because of their chemical composition and actions within the central nervous system, opioid painkillers present significant risks for abuse and addiction.
Now, there’s a potential alternative to opioids called URB937—a compound that produces pain relief without presenting serious abuse- or addiction-related concerns.
Vicodin is the brand name of a medication that contains the opioid drug hydrocodone and the painkilling drug acetaminophen. Other medications that contain this same mix of active ingredients include Lortab, Anexsia, Lorcet and a number of generic products. Doctors typically prescribe 
In November 2011, Blake Seamonson was visiting his great-grandmother at a nursing home in Deerfield, Wisconsin. As the adults chatted, the two-year-old played with toy trucks on the floor. A tiny piece – less than one inch square- of transparent paper something like adhesive tape attached on one of his toys, and ended up stuck on Blake’s neck. A few days later Blake died of fentanyl poisoning. Scant traces of the 
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Over 210 million prescriptions for codeine are written every year in the United States, making it the most widely prescribed painkiller in the country. Because so much is available, it is widely abused, especially in the form of cough syrups. Its street name, “Little C,” indicates how American addicts feel about codeine -it’s a nice little high to tie you over and to avoid withdrawal symptoms when you can’t get 
Percocet addiction has been on the increase since August 2011 when Purdue Pharmacies changed the format of their opiate painkiller OxyContin. The new formulation makes it harder to crush, chew, snort, or liquefy OxyContin because it turns to goo when you try any of these maneuvers addicts perform to increase the drug’s effects. Percocet still comes in crushable pill form and contains oxycodone, the main ingredient in OxyContin. Former addicts of OxyContin particularly desire Percocet pills that contain the largest amounts of oxycodone.
In 2009 an Anti-Drug Task Force in Cairo seized a shipment of drugs containing over 2.5 million tramadol pills. That same year researchers estimated that 30% of men ages 14 to 30 years old in Cairo were addicted to tramadol, which was entering the country in large illegal shipments from China and India. Drug addiction remains an ongoing serious problem in Egypt today, especially in Cairo, where an estimated 1.4 million are drug addicted, most commonly to tramadol or 