Drugs
Monday, August 20, 2007
AP analysis finds U.S. pain medicine use has skyrocketed 88 percent
People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping pills at an alarming rate to cope with it. The amount of five major prescription painkillers sold at retail establishments rose 88 percent between 1997 and 2005.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
CDC: Antidepressants most prescribed drugs in U.S.
According to a government study, antidepressants have become the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States. They’re prescribed more than drugs to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, or headaches. In its study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at 2.4 billion drugs prescribed in visits to doctors and hospitals in 2005. Of those, 118 million were for antidepressants.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Stress triggers relapse in meth abuse, OHSU study finds
Oregon Health & Science University research showing stress triggers a relapse of methamphetamine abuse in mice could be a step toward developing a drug to curb this frustrating obstacle to recovery.
Monday, June 12, 2006
A Dose Of Genius
According to a study published in February in an international biomedical and psychosocial journal, Drug and Alcohol Dependence noted that more than 7 million Americans used bootleg prescription stimulants, and 1.6 million of those users were of student age. By the time students reach college nowadays, they’re already apt to know about these drugs, obtained with or without a prescription.
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Sunday, May 28, 2006
A cure for Stress?
It started as a hi-tech relaxation technique for burnt-out executives. Now everyone from schoolchildren to sports stars are discovering the seemingly miraculous benefits of HeartMath.
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Sunday, April 16, 2006
Comparison of Schizophrenia Drugs Often Favors Firm Funding Study
When psychiatrist John Davis analyzed every publicly available trial funded by the pharmaceutical industry pitting five new antipsychotic drugs against one another, nine in 10 showed that the best drug was the one made by the company funding the study. “On the basis of these contrasting findings in head-to-head trials, it appears that whichever company sponsors the trial produces the better antipsychotic drug,” Davis and others wrote in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Such studies make up the bulk of the evidence that American doctors rely on to prescribe $10 billion worth of antipsychotic medications each year.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Job stress tied to higher risk of drug abuse
Young workers who feel high stress on the job may be at increased risk of using drugs, new research suggests. In a survey of nearly 1,000 young adults, researchers found that those who reported high job strain when they were first interviewed for the study were more likely to have started abusing marijuana, cocaine, heroin or other drugs one year later.
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Saturday, November 19, 2005
Trouble in Prozac Nation
Wonder drugs of the 1990s, Prozac and its kin have been prescribed to tens of millions of people. But a growing backlash may portend the end of an era.
Monday, June 20, 2005
Got a problem? We’ve got a pill
North Americans, desperate and otherwise, are turning to prescription drugs—stimulants, antidepressants, tranquilizers and other “mind enhancers”—for quick fixes to everyday troubles. It’s part of a larger social phenomenon that Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, has dubbed “cosmetic neurology”—that is, the use of drugs among otherwise healthy people to manipulate mood, memory, concentration, libido, capacity to learn and general ability to cope.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Drugs Raise Risk of Suicide - Analysis of Data Adds to Concerns On Antidepressants
Adults taking popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide as patients given sugar pills, according to an analysis released yesterday of hundreds of clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients. The results mirror a recent finding of the Food and Drug Administration that the drugs increase suicidal thoughts and behavior among some children, and offer tangible support to concerns going back 15 years that the mood-lifting pills have a dark side.
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Monday, December 06, 2004
Antidepressant Use By U.S. Adults Soars
One in 10 American women takes an antidepressant drug such as Prozac, Paxil or Zoloft, and the use of such drugs by all adults has nearly tripled in the last decade, according to the latest figures on American health released yesterday by the federal government.
Friday, August 13, 2004
Nation’s ER’s Report: Abuse of Anti-Anxiety Drugs Up
The number of drug-abuse related visits to hospital emergency rooms (ERs) involving benzodiazepine medications exceeded 100,000 in 2002, a 41 percent increase since 1995, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN).
Monday, May 17, 2004
Medco Study Reveals Pediatric Spending Spike on Drugs to Treat Behavioral Problems
Spending on drugs primarily used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) surged 369 percent for children under age 5 as the number of kids taking one or more prescription medicines to treat behavior-related conditions hit nearly 9 percent for those children taking as least one medication overall.
Thursday, September 05, 2002
Officials alarmed by rising US drug abuse numbers
The number of Americans who use drugs and alcohol rose sharply last year and teen marijuana use has reached its highest level in more than 20 years, according to national survey figures released by federal health officials Thursday
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