Please State The Nature Of The Medical Emergency

I enjoy reading medical blogs so I thought I'd start one over on the Medlinks site. It's mostly a way of book marking the plethora of web articles I read, and making some kind of sense from what I've learned. Anyway: Focus on Drugs and various other things… March 16, 2014 Do you know where your gall bladder is located? gallstones Since I’ve been reading about drugs, I’ve developed an increased interest in news articles about them. In New Zealand, new synthetic drugs can be made legally available, however, other illicit drugs remain illegal. Will this see a rise in drug use in NZ? Will more people die by mixing different drugs? Should more police be given Naloxone? If it saves lives surely it’s a good thing,? Considering the horrible side effects of naloxone, it doesn’t seem likely to make users more reckless, just allow them to make mistakes, and hopefully to learn from them. A 3rd of the world’s population of smokers are in China! I had no idea it was such a problem there, a projected 50 million deaths between 2012 – 2050. Solution? Increased excise tax, smoke-free laws and a marketing ban (Nursing Standard/BMJ) Nicotine Replacement Therapy doesn’t seem to work as well as counselling to get pregnant women to stop smoking. Maybe the alcohol duty escalator should not be abolished, after reading this. The sBMJ looks at the minimum price for alcohol. Extreme best and worse case scenarios of e-cigarettes on public health. How do you feel about patients recordin...
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