Former Dracut Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Liquid Morphine
FDA OCI, Michael Langlois, Nurse, sentence, tampering, liquid morphine, Dracut MA, hospice patient, Lowell nursing home, saline, Benadryl, Melrose nursing home, false, medical file, 42 months prison, prescription drug, (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - April 12, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Northborough Nurse Charged with Tampering with Liquid Morphine
FDA OCI, registered nurse, arrest, tampering, morphine, nursing home, resident, Gwen Rider, Northborough MA, fraud, deception, controlled substance, Worcester County, dementia patient, consumer protection, (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - April 6, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Inside Ibogaine, One of the Most Promising and Perilous Psychedelics for Addiction
Amber Capone had become afraid of her husband. The “laid-back, bigger than life and cooler than cool” man she’d married had become isolated, disconnected and despondent during his 13 years as a U.S. Navy SEAL. Typically, he was gone 300 days of the year, but when he was home, Amber and their two children walked on eggshells around him. “Everyone was just playing nice until he left again,” Amber says.
In 2013, Marcus retired from the military. But life as a civilian only made his depression, anger, headaches, anxiety, alcoholism, impulsivity and violent dreams worse. Sometimes he’d get up...
Source: TIME: Health - April 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mandy Oaklander Tags: Uncategorized Drugs feature Magazine Mental Health Source Type: news
Connecticut Nurse Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Liquid Morphine
FDA OCI, tampering, liquid morphine, Danielle Works, Stafford Springs CT, guilty plea, Governor ’s Center, Westfield, morphine, dilute, hospice patient, (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - March 31, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Morphine Milligram Equivalents: Current Applications and Knowledge Gaps, Research Opportunities, and Future Directions; Public Workshop; Request for Comments - 06/07/2021 - 06/08/2021
The purpose of the workshop is to bring stakeholders together to discuss the topic of morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) with the goals of providing an understanding of the science and data underlying existing MME calculations for opioid analgesics; discussing the gaps in these data. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - March 16, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Sustained-release morphine for refractory breathlessness in COPD: improves QoL, reduces cost
(Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News)
Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - March 1, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Dark Web Trafficker Pleads Guilty to Distributing Opioids
FDA OCI, Daren Reid, Ft. Lauderdale FL, guilty, distribute, opioids, dark web, Oxyflight, Imperial Royalty, oxycodone, morphine, Silk Road, Wall Street, Apollon, drug trafficking, prescription drugs, Bitcoin, (Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases)
Source: Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI) Press Releases - February 12, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: DOJ Source Type: news
Mexico ’s poor have little luck obtaining opioids intended for palliative care
If you ’re poor and terminally ill in southern Mexico, there’s far less chance you’ll get the painkillers you need for palliative care than your cousins in more prosperous regions, particularly those pharmacy-rich areas along Mexico–U.S. border, say UCLA researchers and colleagues who studied opioi d dispensing levels across the country.What ’s more, the researchers’ paper in the journalThe Lancet Public Health suggests it ’s likely that some of the opioids intended for Mexican citizens are ending up in American pockets.Despite a Mexican government initiative launched in 2015 to improve access to prescription...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
How Long Do You Monitor Neonates for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)?
Discussion
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) occurs in the first few days of life and is a complex withdrawal syndrome. The newborn is abruptly cut-off from their exposure to licit or illicit drugs that the mother is chronically consuming and which were being transmitted through the placenta to the fetus. “NAS is a highly variable and severe condition; it may be associated with central and autonomic nervous system dysfunction … and gastrointestinal disorders.” It can cause significant morbidity but is rarely fatal.
Fetal exposure has been increasing in the United States. In 2011-12, almost 5.9% of pregna...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 11, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Anterior cingulate inputs to nucleus accumbens control the social transfer of pain and analgesia
Empathy is an essential component of social communication that involves experiencing others’ sensory and emotional states. We observed that a brief social interaction with a mouse experiencing pain or morphine analgesia resulted in the transfer of these experiences to its social partner. Optogenetic manipulations demonstrated that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and its projections to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) were selectively involved in the social transfer of both pain and analgesia. By contrast, the ACC->NAc circuit was not necessary for the social transfer of fear, which instead depended on ACC projectio...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 7, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Smith, M. L., Asada, N., Malenka, R. C. Tags: Neuroscience r-articles Source Type: news
Analgesic Efficacy of Ear Acupuncture After Hysterectomy Analgesic Efficacy of Ear Acupuncture After Hysterectomy
Might electric ear acupuncture provid postoperative analgesia and reduce morphine requirement after abdominal hysterectomy?BMC Anesthesiology (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anesthesiology Journal Article Source Type: news
The positive and negative outcome of morphine and disulfiram subacute co-administration in rats in the absence of ethanol challenge - Fr ączek K, Kowalczyk A, Pekala M, Kasarello K, Sygitowicz G, Sulejczak D, Zaremba M, Konop M, Frankowska M, Filip M, Bujalska-Zadrozny M, Kleczkowska P.
Recently, a well-known anti-alcohol agent, disulfiram (DSF), has gain much interest, as it was found to be effective in the treatment of cocaine abusers, thus also giving hope for patients addicted to opioids and other illicit drugs. Therefore, this stud... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Haloperidol potentiates antinociceptive effects of morphine and disrupt opioid tolerance - Mena-Vald és LC, Blanco-Hernández Y, Espinosa-Juárez JV, López-Muñoz FJ.
The objectives of this work were to determine the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Overdose Deaths Far Outpace COVID-19 Deaths in San Francisco (CA)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.
The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn’t for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the beginning of November to save someone from the brink of death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.
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Beyond Naloxone: Providing Comprehensive Prehospital Care to Overdose Patients in the Midst of a Public Health CrisisOne Paramedic’s Perspecti...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 21, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Patient Care California Overdose Source Type: news
Overdose Deaths Far Outpace COVID-19 Deaths in San Francisco (CA)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.
The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn’t for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the beginning of November to save someone from the brink of death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.
Related
Beyond Naloxone: Providing Comprehensive Prehospital Care to Overdose Patients in the Midst of a Public Health CrisisOne Paramedic’s Perspecti...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - December 21, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Patient Care California Overdose Source Type: news
