Small (But Powerful) Healthy Habits You Should Start Right Now
Quite possibly the easiest healthy habits you can start right now. Lemons Can Be Better Than Xanax Introducing nature's chill pill. Start sniffing. Read more. The Best Exercises to Do If You're Out of Shape The most effective, accessible ways to get back into the swing of things. Read more. Eat a Pear Before Drinking a Glass of Wine News alert: it just might prevent that dreadful hangover. Read more. What To Think About When You Run The collective dream: an open road. Read more. 5 Exercises for Saggy Arms You Can Do at Home Dust off your tank tops. Here are five moves you can do--no sweat. Read more. ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Are So Many College and High School Kids Abusing Adderall
During the past 15 years, there has been a remarkable transformation in the drug trade. It used to be dominated by the illegal drug cartels. Now it it is dominated by the legal drug companies. The most dangerous legal drugs are the prescription opioids, now responsible for twice as many deaths as street drugs and also for a secondary epidemic of heroin addiction. The next most dangerous legal drugs are Xanax and other short acting benzodiazepines that potentiate overdoses, cause severe addiction, raise the risk of falls, and worsen cognitive problems. ADHD meds are the most dangerous legal drugs among young people in...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 9, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Fake Xanax blamed for woman's death
San Francisco health officials warn about pills that sent several people to the hospital (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - October 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ex-Georgia physician says he unlawfully prescribed oxycodone, Xanax to thousands
A ex-Georgia doctor admitted in federal court to conspiring with the owner of a Tucker, Ga., pain clinic, and others, to distribute illegally thousands of prescription pills.
Michael Johnston, 58, plead guilty Oct. 8 to conspiring to unlawfully distribute oxycodone. Johnston will serve 10 years in prison, starting Jan. 12, 2016.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Johnston admitted that from May 2011 until November 2011 he conspired with Joel Shumrak, the owner of a Tucker pain clinic,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 9, 2015 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Phil W. Hudson Source Type: news
The Stress Epidemic and the Search for the Modern Cure
We are living in an epidemic of stress. The people who walk into my office on a daily basis - busy successful New Yorkers with full lives and a lot going on -- look to the world like they have it all. But more often than not they are deeply stressed out. They are not alone. In 2011, nearly 75 million unique prescriptions were written for Xanax and Ativan, two anti-anxiety medications, in the United States, indicating our country has a serious problem with stress. Furthermore, one in 10 Americans now takes an antidepressant medication -- and among women in their 40s and 50s, that number is one in four. From, what I see...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How I Finally Made Peace With My Anxiety Disorder
I sank into the faded green couch and prepared to tell another stranger about a part of myself I'd been trying to get rid of since I was a child; to describe what it feels like on those rare occasions when my brain tells me to run from everything; when even the most mundane daily tasks -- driving to the store, making plans -- can trigger a fight-or-flight response so intense that my vision blurs, my heart palpitates, my palms perspire, and I am left gasping for breath. Anyone who believes anxiety is purely a mental phenomenon has never had a panic attack.
As I prepared to tell this man about the inner workings of my psyc...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Facebook Feed of the Mind
A couple of months ago, not long before the parliamentary elections in the UK, my wife made an interesting observation. "Based on my Facebook feed," she pointed out, "Labour are going to win this election by a landslide."
When I looked through her feed, I could see what she meant. Not only were there numerous posts and re-posts of news stories and blogs about how the UK was swinging back towards the left, even the ads and promoted stories seemed to indicate a new tide coming in British politics. Knowing a thing or two about confirmation bias and the nature of social media, I remained unconvinced.
When the election actual...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is It Bedtime for Benzos?
“Bernard also laughed; after two grams of soma the joke seemed, for some reason, good. Laughed and then, almost immediately, dropped off to sleep.” — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World It’s been a tough few years for benzodiazepines, the pharmaceutical industry’s top-selling family of prescription drugs. Tough in every way, that is, except sales: Xanax remains the world’s most popular pill, and U.S. prescriptions for it and other benzos grow by 12 percent every year. It’s their reputation, long enjoyed, as harmless and effective medicines that’s taking a flurry of hits — some glancing, others on the nose. Fo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 25, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Joining Team IUD
Life is full of situations that are beyond my control, but my reproductive system should not be one of them.
Last Sunday my cervix was not happy with me. Perhaps that is a bit of an understatement. It was throwing a temper tantrum because of what I did to it about 48 hours prior. That's when I officially became a member of Team IUD -- Team Paraguard (Copper IUD) to be exact.
Chances are you stumbled across this blog as you Googled "what is it like getting an IUD" or "does getting an IUD hurt." At least thats what I did in the weeks leading up before joining Team IUD.
As far as the IUD insertion experience, I'm not g...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sleeping pills including Xanax and Valium TREBLE the risk of lung cancer
Norwegian Institute of Public Health scientists found a slight increase in the risk of all types of cancer with sleeping tablets, but a 'worrying' rise in risk with respiratory cancers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctors Among Dozens Held in Raids Against Illegal Sales of Prescription Drugs
The raids came after a 15-month investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which focused on the illegal sale and distribution of painkillers including oxycodone and hydrocodone and the tranquilizer Xanax. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - May 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: ALAN SCHWARZ Tags: Mississippi Drug Enforcement Administration Pain-Relieving Drugs Doctors Alabama Sedatives Louisiana Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Drug Abuse and Traffic OxyContin (Drug) Arkansas Source Type: news
Doctors Among Dozens Held in Raids Against Illegal Sales of Prescription Drugs
The raids came after a 15-month investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which focused on the illegal sale and distribution of painkillers including oxycodone and hydrocodone and the tranquilizer Xanax. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ALAN SCHWARZ Tags: Mississippi Drug Enforcement Administration Pain-Relieving Drugs Doctors Alabama Sedatives Louisiana Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Drug Abuse and Traffic OxyContin (Drug) Arkansas Source Type: news
Anxiety Ruled This Lawyer's Life. Until He Tried Meditation.
A 500-square-foot Midtown studio in New York City is quietly becoming a temple for the anxious, the overworked and the curious. There are 26 seats.
From inside the studio windows, you peer over taxi cabs crowding 5th Avenue below and if you put your nose right up to the glass, you can see the needle of the Empire State building looming large, piercing upwards into the sky.
Ben Turshen opened the single door to his meditation studio less than six weeks ago and he has only been teaching the practice for two years. But his following is growing, perhaps because he’s the most unlikely of teachers.
“I didn’t learn medit...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Anxiety Ruled This Lawyer's Life. Until He Tried Meditation.
A 500-square-foot Midtown studio in New York City is quietly becoming a temple for the anxious, the overworked and the curious. There are 26 seats.
From inside the studio windows, you peer over taxi cabs crowding 5th Avenue below and if you put your nose right up to the glass, you can see the needle of the Empire State building looming large, piercing upward into the sky.
Ben Turshen opened the single door to his meditation studio less than six weeks ago and he has only been teaching the practice for two years. But his following is growing, perhaps because he’s the most unlikely of teachers.
“I didn’t learn medita...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 18, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
First Times and Anxiety
How do you understand when anxiety is finally over?
I’ve asked myself this question many times. Let me be frank: I have no answer to that.
Nevertheless, a few months ago I casually stumbled upon the following quote and I believe I couldn’t have found a better way to describe my feelings:
Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
— Haruki Murakami, Kaf...
Source: Psych Central - May 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alexis Flye Tags: Anti-anxiety Antidepressants Disorders General Medications Personal Stories Psychotherapy Agoraphobia fainting first times Insomnia Psychopharmaceuticals Social Anxiety Source Type: news
