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 ...