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As cannabis laws relax, neuroscientist warns of its dangers for developing brain
One morning in June, barely 5 months after the first dispensary for recreational cannabis opened in New York state, neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd spoke via Zoom to an audience of educators and specialists who work with or run programs for children. The session’s organizers, alarmed by how many children in their South Bronx community were now getting their hands on cannabis, had sought Hurd’s expertise on the drug’s effects.
Hurd put up a slide of the human brain, its bumps and grooves tinged blue, green, yellow, and red to indicate the distribution of the receptors to which tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoact...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 31, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
"I Just Don't Feel Heard": A Case Study on Opioid Use Disorder and Pain Management
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2023 Aug 28:1-6. doi: 10.1080/15360288.2023.2250340. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe nation's opioid epidemic requires a paradigm shift in the way patients with co-occurring opioid use disorder are treated during episodes of acute pain. Patients are often introduced to prescription opioids after an extremity fracture or sprain or resulting from musculoskeletal back, abdominal, or dental pain. Opioid naive patients who receive their first opioid prescription on discharge from the emergency department may be more likely to develop chronic opioid use compared to patients receiving non-opioi...
Source: Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy - August 28, 2023 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Aila Malik Peter D Vu A Sarah Cohen Vishal Bansal Morgan R Cowan Gregory M Blazek Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer Source Type: research
97. Gene expression changes with short- and long-term cannabinoid treatments in a spinal fusion model
The rising opioid epidemic is a public health crisis at the crossroads of orthopedic care and pain management. Medical marijuana is a potential non-opioid analgesic yet to be studied in the surgical setting and its effects on fracture repair are not fully understood. In addition to the analgesic effects of cannabinoids, studies have demonstrated potentially osteo-inductive properties, albeit controversial at the molecular level. Osteoblasts, osteoclasts and bone peripheral nerve terminals have been shown to have endocannabinoid receptors (CB1, CB2), comparably expressed to that of brain tissue.
Source: The Spine Journal - August 22, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Harold Fogel, Caleb Yeung, Diana Yeritsyan, Kaveh Momenzadeh, Nadim Kheir, Mohammadreza Abbasian, Ara Nazarian Source Type: research
We Can Prevent Overdose Deaths If We Change How We Think About Them
I’ve been living in recovery from opioid use disorder for eight and a half years, and this might be a weird thing to say about addiction, but I feel lucky—like I dodged a bullet. I was addicted to opioids in Florida throughout the early 2000s, during the heyday of pill mills that flooded the streets with powerful pharmaceuticals like OxyContin. I say I’m lucky because this was just before the drug supply turned into a toxic sludge of potent fentanyl analogues, mysterious tranquilizers, and deadly counterfeit pills. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I were using today. The chances of my survival ...
Source: TIME: Health - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Hampton Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Defining text neck: a scoping review
ConclusionThis study showed that posture is the defining characteristic of text neck in the academic literature. For research purposes, it seems that text neck is a habit of texting on the smartphone in a flexed neck position. Since there is no scientific evidence linking text neck with neck pain regardless of the definition used, adjectives like inappropriate or incorrect should be avoided when intended to qualify posture.
Source: European Spine Journal - July 5, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Source Type: research
American Health Care Is Broken. Major Hospitals Need to Be Part of the Solution
American health care is broken. And American health care systems must transform radically to lead the repair.
Let’s first look at the data: The U.S. now spends more than $4 trillion a year on health care. That’s nearly 20% of gross domestic product. Yet U.S. life expectancy lags literally dozens of other nations—including Portugal, Slovenia, and Turkey—by as much as seven years. If trends continue, we will drop to 64th in the world in life expectancy by 2040, though we will continue to spend significantly more per capita than nearly any other nation.
Diagnosing this failure is not difficult. Nearly ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald M. Berwick and Michelle A. Williams Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
Inside the Emerging Xylazine Addiction Crisis in the U.S.
Devin Bair, a 42-year-old Pennsylvania resident, had used opioids on-and-off for years, but she never experienced anything like xylazine. She first took it without knowing two years ago when it infiltrated her dealer’s supply, and she unknowingly became addicted to it. Xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer that isn’t meant for use in humans, is an increasingly common adulterant pervading the U.S. illicit drug supply, but little is known about its effects on the human body or how to treat the intense withdrawal symptoms it causes.
Xylazine has taken a stronghold in Philadelphia, a city at the forefront of addictio...
Source: TIME: Health - May 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anisha Kohli / Philadelphia Tags: Uncategorized Drugs General Assignment healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Exploring the correlations between < em > epi < /em > indicators of COVID-19 and the concentration of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater treatment plants in Northern Portugal
J Hazard Mater Adv. 2023 May;10:100315. doi: 10.1016/j.hazadv.2023.100315. Epub 2023 May 11.ABSTRACTThe COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus led to changes in the lifestyle and human behaviour, which resulted in different consumption patterns of some classes of pharmaceuticals including curative, symptom-relieving, and psychotropic drugs. The trends in the consumption of these compounds are related to their concentrations in wastewater systems, since incompletely metabolised drugs (or their metabolites back transformed into the parental form) may be detected and quantified by analytical methods. Pharmaceuticals...
Source: Adv Data - May 16, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Ana R Silva Daniela P Mesquita M Salom é Duarte Ana R Lado Ribeiro M Fernando R Pereira M Madalena Alves S ílvia Monteiro Ricardo Santos M ónica V Cunha Sandra Jorge Joana Vieira Jo ão Vilaça Lu ísa C Lopes Marta Carvalho Carlos Brito Ant ónio Mart Source Type: research
Long Waits, Short Appointments, Huge Bills: U.S. Health Care Is Causing Patient Burnout
You haven’t been feeling well lately. You’re more tired than usual, a bit sluggish. You wonder if there’s something wrong with your diet. Or maybe you’re anemic? You call your primary-care doctor’s office to schedule an appointment. They inform you the next available appointment is in three weeks.
So, you wait.
And then you wait some more.
And then, when you arrive on the day of your appointment, you wait even more.
You fill out the mountain of required paperwork, but the doctor still isn’t ready to see you. You flip through a magazine for a while, then scroll through your phone unt...
Source: TIME: Health - February 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized feature healthscienceclimate Magazine medicine Source Type: news
The Opioid Addiction Crisis & U.S. National Security
Methadone Maintenance Therapy is offered in Thailand to reduce harm for people dependent on injected opioids, like heroin. Credit: World Bank/Trinn Suwannapha
Opioids are a class of drugs that includes the illegal drug heroin as well as power pain relievers available by prescription, such as oxycodone (Oxycontin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine, morphine, fentanyl, methadone, and many others.By Geetika Chandwani and Purnaka L. de SilvaNEW YORK, Feb 10 2023 (IPS) The opioid addiction crisis in the United States is an acute public health emergency and a profound threat to national security – which is caused by the...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Geetika Chandwani and Purnaka de Silva Tags: Crime & Justice Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
The monkeypox diagnosis, treatments and prevention: A review
The world is currently dealing with a second viral outbreak, monkeypox, which has the potential to become an epidemic after the COVID-19 pandemic. People who reside in or close to forest might be exposed indirectly or at a low level, resulting in subclinical disease. However, the disease has lately emerged in shipped African wild mice in the United States. Smallpox can cause similar signs and symptoms to monkeypox, such as malaise, fever, flu-like signs, headache, distinctive rash, and back pain. Because Smallpox has been eliminated, similar symptoms in a monkeypox endemic zone should be treated cautiously. Monkeypox is tr...
Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - February 6, 2023 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research
Outbreaks of human monkeypox during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review for healthcare professionals
Iran J Microbiol. 2022 Dec;14(6):778-791. doi: 10.18502/ijm.v14i6.11252.ABSTRACTThe ongoing 2022 multicountry monkeypox epidemic has drawn worldwide attention. Human monkeypox is a virus that spreads from animals to humans. It is an endemic disease in the rain forests of Central and West Africa. However, the disease recently emerged in India, and also in United States through imported wild rodents from Africa, even though the world is still struggling to escape from the clutches of the COVID-19 pandemic. Monkeypox is one of the contagious zoonotic diseases caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), transmitted to humans by dire...
Source: Iranian Journal of Microbiology - February 1, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: Prithiviraj Nagarajan Anusheela Howlader Leena Rajathy Port Louis Kumar Rangarajalu Source Type: research
