16. November 2009 03:59
Chronic pain patients with a history of depression are three times more likely to receive long-term prescriptions for opioid medications like Vicodin compared to pain patients who do not suffer from depression, according to new research.
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25. September 2009 04:16
Clinic owners and operators Jose Martinez and Denisse Martinez pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Detroit to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg of the Eastern District of Michigan and Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced.
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27. August 2009 01:16
An advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently recommended limiting sales of acetaminophen products like Tylenol and also recommended banning prescription pain medications Vicodin and Percocet. This recommendation will prompt more people to change their habits and focus on joint pain remedy and pain relievers found in the natural vitamin supplements industry for arthritis treatment.
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21. August 2009 08:23
Nutra Pharma Corp. (OTCBB: NPHC), a biotechnology company that is developing treatments for Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), HIV and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), has announced today that it has launched an over-the-counter (OTC) pain reliever, Cobroxin, for the treatment of Stage 2 (moderate to severe) chronic pain.
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Tags: Acetaminophen, Arthritis, Back Pain, Biotechnology, Cancer, Constipation, Depression, Morphine, Multiple Sclerosis, Nausea, Neuralgia, Stress, Venom, Vicodin, Vomiting
7. January 2009 22:33
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced that together with its subsidiaries, it has received final approval from U.S. FDA for several Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDA).
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11. December 2008 16:26
There are signs that the ongoing decline in teen marijuana use in recent years has stalled; however the downward trend in cigarette and alcohol use continues, according to the 2008 Monitoring the Future (MTF) Survey. Results were announced today at a news conference.
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Tags: Binge Drinking, CDC, Drug Abuse, Health and Human Services, Marijuana/Cannabis, Mental Health, Opioid Drug, Prescription Drug, Seniors, Smoking, Smoking Addiction, Tobacco, Vicodin
4. November 2008 17:46
In the first clinical trial of a medication that was used for an extended time to treat opioid addiction in young adults, participants who received counseling and Suboxone (buprenorphine-naloxone) for 12 weeks had substantially better outcomes than those who received the standard treatment of short-term detoxification and counseling.
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10. September 2008 19:52
No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology today, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains exposed to the painkiller OxyContin can sustain lifelong and permanent changes in their reward system - changes that increase the drug's euphoric properties and make such adolescents more vulnerable to the drug's effects later in adulthood.
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5. June 2008 19:17
How best to alleviate chronic pain, a leading cause of disability and employee absenteeism, continues to perplex both patients and their doctors.
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2. October 2007 08:32
Safety experts in the United States are warning parents about buying over-the-counter cold and cough remedies, specifically marketed for children.
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29. September 2007 00:42
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced its intention to take enforcement action against companies marketing unapproved prescription drug products containing hydrocodone, a narcotic widely used to treat pain and suppress coughs.
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27. September 2007 23:04
People who have the common chronic pain condition fibromyalgia often report that they don't respond to the types of medication that relieve other people's pain.
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Tags: Amygdala, Brain, Depression, Endorphin, Fibromyalgia, Morphine, Neuroscience, Opioid Drug, Oxycodone, Painkiller, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Rheumatology, Vicodin
21. August 2007 07:59
Americans are it seems popping more pills than ever, as according to an analysis of federal data, sales of leading painkiller medications soared by 90 percent in the eight years between 1997 and 2005.
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10. July 2007 13:28
Researchers funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, launched the first large-scale national study evaluating a treatment for addiction to prescription opioid analgesics (i.e., painkillers) such as Vicodin and OxyContin.
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26. June 2007 06:24
Increasingly, drug abusers are getting their next fix from their medicine cabinets, instead of from drug dealers.
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Tags: Anxiety, Bone, Brain, Childbirth, Depression, Diarrhea, Education, Exercise, Heroin, Hospital, Insomnia, Methadone, Painkiller, Prescription Drug, Psychiatry, Vicodin, Vomiting
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