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Thu Oct 9

• FWWeekly: Feature: His Last War: The popular perception, particularly among board examiners and federal regulators, is that chronic pain patients are ?legal drug addicts? and their physicians are ?pill pushers,? Noblett said. Opioids are addictive, and in the past decade, painkillers such as OxyContin have become more abused and used recreationally , a hot party drug for kids who have increasingly become overdose victims. Cutting up time-release pills for quicker rushes or mixing them with alcohol can be lethal. But for Noblett and other chronic pain patients, oxycodone is a miracle drug when used correctly. Now the federal government is cracking down, and the state medical board is following that lead in Texas. The medical board, which got in deep trouble a few years ago for its lax treatment

Tue Oct 7

• Heroin adddiction Suboxone

Thu Oct 2

• NIDA - The Brain & the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana - Teaching Packet

Tue Sep 30

• EBSCOhost: Take-home naloxone to reduce heroin death

Tue Sep 23

• Dopamine

Mon Sep 22

• Treatment Augmentation With Opiates in Severe and Refractory Major Depression: Source: American Journal of Psychiatry, December 1999
• Opiates for treatment-resi stant depression: "Until the 1950s opiates were often used in the treatment of depressive disorders (1). Because of the development of the tricyclic antidepressant s, opiates fell into oblivion concerning this indication. However, only 2 of 3 depressive patients respond to newer antidepressant s today, and even ECT achieves a remission-rate of only about 70%."
• Regionally selective increases in mu opioid receptor density in the brains of suicide victims: Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot (Israel) and 2 Department of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY 10016 (U.S.A.)
• Opioids as antidepressant s: subtypes of depression: Source: European Neuropsychopha rmacology, 2006, Vol 16, Supp 4, S309

Sun Sep 21

• Ultram: Low cost ultram & quality generic medicines at online pharmacy BestLifeRx.com

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