Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Personal tools

More About “opiates”

Morphine in Breast Milk Kills 6 Week Old Infant
A 37 year old woman in South Carolina is facing negligent homicide charges after consuming such heavy quantities of opiates as to turn her breast milk toxic.
People with Depression 3 Times More Likely to Use Opiates
People suffering from clinical depression are 3 times as likely to use opiates for 90 days or longer. Depressed patients are excluded, however, from trials ...
Louisiana Woman Could Get 10 years for Passing Opiate Addiction to Unborn Child
A 30 year old woman out of Houma Louisiana has pled guilty to child cruelty for using opiates while pregnant and passing her addiction to her unborn child. Her ...
Marijuana Protects "Stressed" Rats from Opiate Addiction
Rats that grow up in stressful environments get addicted to opiates more easily than rats that grow up under normal conditions. However, if "stressed" rats are ...
Using Opiates in Massachusetts More Dangerous than Overseas Combat?
Mass. state drugs commission calls opiate use in the commonwealth an “epidemic” and to emphasize the point, compares the numbers of state citizens that die in ...
Opiate Overdoses Up Dramatically in Canada
The number of people in dying in Ontario Canada after overdosing on prescription medications has doubled since the 1990s.
People Prescribed High Doses of Opiates are 9 Times More Likely to OD
Research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows a clear link between the dosage of opiates prescribed and fatal overdose risk (in 2006, 14 000 ...
Pain Expert Says Doctors Are Too Scared to Prescribe Medications – People Living in Pain
An expert in pain management from the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University says that millions of Americans are living in pain because doctors are ...
44% of US Doctors Say Fear of a DEA Investigation Influences Their Handling of Pain Patients
The DEA is scaring doctors, and they want to broaden their influence over the way doctors prescribe medications.
Suboxone Proven Twice as Effective as Naltrexone
A Yale University study had to be stopped for ethical reasons after researchers realized how much better their patients on Suboxone were doing, than their ...