Warriors Coach Steve Kerr Says He Used Marijuana For Back Pain
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he smoked marijuana to treat the pain as he recovered from two back operations and believes it may be a better option for professional athletes than some painkillers.
Kerr told CSN Bay Area on Friday that he experimented with the drug a “few times” to help him overcome the chronic back pain over the last two seasons.
“I guess maybe I can even get in some trouble for this, but I’ve actually tried it twice during the last year and a half, when I’ve been going through this chronic pain that I’ve been dealing with,” Kerr said on The Warriors ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is it Like to Have PRK Surgery?
What is it like to get PRK corrective eye surgery? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by Eric Kolovson, had PRK surgery in both eyes, on Quora:
I got PRK done on each eye, one at a time. Both eyes have been healing on slightly different timelines, but here's the general experience:
Day 0: The surgery itself is relatively painless. I would compare it to going to the dentist for a cleaning, where you have to lie still for a certain amount of time and endure a bit of discomfort, but there is no real pain. The major dif...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lupin gets USFDA nod for generic pain relieving drug
As per IMS MAT sales data, Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen tablets had sales of USD 89.6 million in the US market. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - November 17, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Natural Herbs for Pain Relief
When I was in medical school, doctors only wrote prescriptions for opioid painkillers for terminal cancer patients, surgical patients and critical emergencies.
That's because they knew these drugs were lethal. Opioids come from the same poppy plant used to make opium and heroin. And just like those addictive street drugs, the risk of getting hooked on them is extremely high.
It's incredible how things have changed since then…
What are opioids prescribed for?
Today, you're likely to get a prescription for opioids for just about any kind of pain. That includes chronic pain, fibromyalgia, depression, headac...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - November 14, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Health Natural Cures Source Type: news
Fentanyl Presents Need for New Strategies for Combatting Opioid Abuse
In 2014, more Americans died of drug overdoses than any other year on record. There were more than 47,000 deaths, with roughly two-thirds of those deaths linked to opioids. This opioid epidemic includes synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, which are responsible for the rise in death rates. Fentanyl analogs and carfentanil potent opioid receptor agonists can cause a toxidrome characterized by significant central nervous system and respiratory depression. Fentanyl has been implicated in multiple outbreak of poisonings.1 (See Figure 1, below.)
Acetyl fentanyl, an analog similar to the Schedule II (i.e., a classification of dr...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - November 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steven H. Linder, MD Tags: Patient Care Source Type: news
DEA Is Cutting Production Of Prescription Opioids By 25 Percent In 2017
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to curb the national opioid epidemic by slashing the production of a number of popular prescription painkillers.
In a notice published Wednesday in the federal register, the DEA finalized a previous order on 2017 production quotas for a variety of Schedule I and II drugs, including addictive narcotics like oxycodone, hydromorphone, codeine and fentanyl. The agency has the authority to set limits on manufacturing under the Controlled Substances Act.
In a release, the DEA said it is reducing “the amount of almost every Schedule II opiate and opioid medication” by...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Marijuana May Alleviate America’s Opioid Crisis, New Study Suggests
Access to medical marijuana may be cutting down on the overall use of opioids, including prescription painkillers like OxyContin and Percocet, new research suggests.
In a study, researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health analyzed traffic fatality data from 1999-2013 for 18 U.S states. They found that most states that passed medical marijuana laws saw an overall reduction in fatal crashes involving drivers who tested positive for opioids.
“We would expect the adverse consequences of opioid use to decrease over time in states where medical marijuana use is legal, as individu...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Marijuana May Alleviate America’s Opioid Crisis, New Study Suggests
Access to medical marijuana may be cutting down on the overall use of opioids, including prescription painkillers like OxyContin and Percocet, new research suggests.
In a study, researchers from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health analyzed traffic fatality data from 1999-2013 for 18 U.S states. They found that most states that passed medical marijuana laws saw an overall reduction in fatal crashes involving drivers who tested positive for opioids.
“We would expect the adverse consequences of opioid use to decrease over time in states where medical marijuana use is legal, as individu...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 17, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
ED Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Prescriptions in the VA ED Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Prescriptions in the VA
How have prescribing patterns for hydrocodone/acetaminophen among veterans changed in recent years?Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Emergency Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
Most on opioid painkillers OK with getting overdose antidote: Survey
Randy Dotinga, HealthDay News A small survey of people taking opioid painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin found that most were willing to also fill prescriptions for an overdose antidote. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - September 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Most on Opioid Painkillers OK With Getting Overdose Antidote: Survey
TUESDAY, Sept. 13, 2016 -- A new, small survey of people taking powerful opioid painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin found that most were willing to also fill prescriptions for an overdose antidote.
Three patients even used the antidote to treat... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 13, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Saving lives by prescribing naloxone with opioid painkillers
In this study, researchers trained staff at six clinics in the San Francisco area on how to co-prescribe opioids and naloxone. They then looked at how often naloxone was actually prescribed, whether co-prescribing translated in fewer emergency department visits related to opioids, and whether the dose of prescribed opioids changed. Here’s what the study found:
When providers were trained in this approach, the number of naloxone prescriptions increased. So doctors seemed willing to co-prescribe.
Patients who were on higher dosages of opioids or had been to the emergency department in the past year because of opioids were...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - August 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Wakeman, MD, FASAM, Medical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Substance Use Disorder Initiative Tags: Addiction Behavioral Health Drugs and Supplements Pain Management Prevention Source Type: news
Case series: 8 patients exposed to phony alprazolam (Xanax) containing fentanyl and/or etizolam
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Adverse Effects From Counterfeit Alprazolam Tablets. Arens AM et al. Ann Emerg Med 2016 Aug 8 [Epub ahead of print]
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In March of this year,there were 9 deaths reported in Pinellas County, Florida (the Tampa/St. Petersburg area) associated with fake alprazolam (Xanax) tablets containing fentanyl. Earlier, similar counterfeit pills had been seen around San Francisco and in Monroe County Southern Illinois.
This letter, from the University of California-San Francisco and the California Poison Control System describes 8 cases — including 1 cardiac arrest — from that region. An additional victim ...
Source: The Poison Review - August 25, 2016 Category: Toxicology Authors: Leon Gussow Tags: Medical alprazolam counterfeit etizolam fake phony xanax Source Type: news
Counterfeit Pills Containing Fentanyl Found At Prince's Estate
Counterfeit pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl were found at Prince’s estate in Minneapolis, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
A source associated with the investigation told the AP that inspectors found pills in an Aleve bottle that were falsely labeled as “Watson 385,” a common marking for pills that contain acetaminophen and hydrocodone. However, the AP reports that at least one of the pills tested positive for fentanyl, which is thought to be about 100 times stronger than morphine.
The 57-year-old artist died in April from what medical examiners determined wa...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
