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Major Initiative Established to Prevent Opioid Abuse and Overdose
August 4, 2011 — Fatal overdoses involving prescribed opioids tripled in the United States between 1999 and 2006, climbing to almost 14,000 deaths annually -- more than cocaine and heroin overdoses combined. Now a ... > full story -
Misuse of Pain Medication Is Pathway to High-Risk Behaviors, Study Finds
July 22, 2011 — A new study suggests that abuse of prescription painkillers may be an important gateway to the use of injected drugs such as heroin, among people with a history of using both types of drugs. Common ... > full story -
Scientists Create Vaccine Against Heroin High
July 20, 2011 — Researchers have developed a highly successful vaccine against a heroin high and have indicated its therapeutic ... > full story -
Low Dose Naltrexone: Harnessing the Body's Own Chemistry to Treat Human Ovarian Cancer
July 12, 2011 — Researchers have discovered that a low dose of the opioid antagonist naltrexone (LDN) markedly suppresses progression of human ovarian cancer transplanted into mice. LDN's antitumor action was ... > full story -
Natural Pain Relief from Poisonous Shrub?
July 11, 2011 — An extract of the poisonous shrub Jatropha curcas acts as a strong painkiller and may have a mode of action different from conventional analgesics, such as morphine and other ... > full story -
Dentists' Role in Painkiller Abuse
July 1, 2011 — Dentists, pharmacists and addiction experts provides new research and recommendations to help dentists combat, rather than contribute to, abuse of addictive ... > full story -
Preventing Avoidable Opioid-Related Deaths Top Priority for Pain Medicine Field
June 13, 2011 — Deaths related to prescription opioid therapy are under intense scrutiny, prompting those in pain medicine -- clinicians, patient advocates, and regulators -- to understand the causes behind ... > full story -
Natural Product Shows Pain-Killing Properties
May 23, 2011 — Scientists have for the first time accomplished a laboratory synthesis of a rare natural product isolated from the bark of a plant widely employed in traditional medicine. This advance may provide ... > full story -
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Use of Naltrexone Reduces Inflammation in Crohn's Patients, Study Suggests
May 19, 2011 — Naltrexone reduced inflammation in Crohn's patients in a new research study. Naltrexone is a drug used to help recovering alcoholics and drug users stay clean. It inhibits the body's opioid system ... > full story -
Narcotic Pain Relief Drug Overdose Deaths a National Epidemic
April 25, 2011 — Unintentional overdose deaths in teens and adults have reached epidemic proportions in the US. In some 20 states in 2007 the number of unintentional drug poisoning deaths exceeded either motor ... > full story
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