Bath Salts Have Da…
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Emergency rooms are seeing a growing number of people high on bath salts, new stimulant drugs that can cause long-lasting and dangerous effects. The New York Times reports that doctors are trying to determine the best way to treat people high on these synthetic drugs.
Bath salts have…
Majority of U.S. Ecs…
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Nearly three-fourths of ecstasy-related emergency department (ED) visits in 2009 also involved other drugs, according to data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). Of the estimated 22,816 ecstasy-related ED visits in 2009, approximately one-fourth (26%) involved ecstasy only….
K2 Causing Hallucina…
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Teens are getting high on an emerging drug called fake weed, a concoction also known as K2 and spice that is also causing hallucinations, vomiting, agitation and other dangerous effects.
In the last month, Dr. Anthony Scalzo, a professor of toxicology at Saint Louis…
Medication Borrowing…
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Despite warnings about borrowing medication prescribed to other people, past studies have demonstrated that many Americans say they have used someone elses medication at least once in a given year. In low income, urban populations, this rate was stereotypically thought to be higher due…
Deadly Drugged Drivi…
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Its well known that drunk driving can have fatal consequences, but a new study suggests that alcohol is not the only drug thats a danger on the road.
It might make sense that drugs like marijuana or amphetamines would impair drivers and lead to crashes. But few studies have…
Back Pain: Medication and Addiction
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How can we balance the risk of drug abuse with the suffering caused by untreated back pain?
People living with serious back pain have to sort through a lot of mixed messages about opioid or narcotic painkillers.
On the one hand, youve heard stories about the seeming epidemic of addiction to these drugs, like OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin. All those celebrities checking into rehab for painkiller addiction may give you the impression that the lure of these drugs is irresistible, that were all just a few pills away from addiction.
But on the other hand, you might have heard that pain is chronically…
Scientists Create Vaccine Against Heroin High
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Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a highly successful vaccine against a heroin high and have proven its therapeutic potential in animal models.
The new study, published recently online ahead of print by the American Chemical Societys Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, demonstrates how a novel vaccine produces antibodies (a kind of immune molecule) that stop not only heroin but also other psychoactive compounds metabolized from heroin from reaching the brain to produce euphoric effects.
In my 25 years of making drug-of-abuse vaccines, I havent seen such a strong immune response as I have with…
Nearly All ER Visits…
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There were an estimated 1,199 emergency department (ED) visits related to the accidental ingestion of buprenorphine in 2009more than double the number of visits in 2008 and representing 5% of all buprenorphine-related ED visits in 2009 (see CESAR FAX, Volume 20, Issue 26). According to data…
Patients who use ant…
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Patients who use anti-depressants are much more likely to suffer relapses of major depression than those who use no medication at all, concludes a McMaster researcher.
In a paper that is likely to ignite new controversy in the hotly debated field of depression and medication, evolutionary…
New Hope for Treatme…
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New discoveries by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) offer potential for development of a first-ever pharmacological treatment for cocaine addiction.
A common beta blocker, propranolol, currently used to treat people with hypertension and anxiety, has shown…
