A Food and Drug Administration panel recommended approval of a drug made of cannabidiol on April 19 to treat two types of epilepsy. The FDA is expected to decide in June whether to accept the panel’s 13-0 recommendation to approve Epidiolex, which would would become the first drug made… Read More »Marijuana approval for epilepsy drug not a win for weed
By Bronwyn Herbert, 14 Oct 2015 VIDEO: This is the controversial ice treatment former addicts swear by (7.30) More than 300 ice addicts a year are turning to controversial naltrexone implants at a Perth clinic in a bid to fight their drug addiction. Professor Gary Hulse is… Read More »Naltrexone implants a possible solution to Australia’s ice epidemic
Similar to other fentanils, the most serious acute health risk from using carfentanil is likely to be rapid and severe respiratory depression, which in overdose could lead to apnoea, respiratory arrest, and death (Dahan et al., 2010; EMCDDA, 2017; Lindsay et al., 2016; Pattinson, 2008;… Read More »Carfentanil
15/11/17 By Professor Neil McKeganey Last week Scotland’s leading law officer, the Lord Advocate, brought a shuddering halt to a proposal from Glasgow City Council to develop a safe injecting centre in the city. Such a centre would have required a change in UK drug laws… Read More »Good sense kills the not-so-safe injecting centre
Abstract BACKGROUND: medical cannabis refers to the use of cannabis or cannabinoids as medical therapy to treat disease or alleviate symptoms. In the United States, 23 states and Washington DC (May 2015) have introduced laws to permit the medical use of cannabis. Within the European… Read More »Systematic review of safeness and therapeutic efficacy of cannabis in patients with multiple sclerosis, neuropathic pain, and in oncological patients treated with chemotherapy].
Teens who use a lot of marijuana and alcohol are less likely to have a full-time job when they grow up, or to get a college education or get married, according to a new study by University of Connecticut researchers. The study of 1,165 young… Read More »UConn Study: Teenage Pot, Alcohol Use Can Reduce Success Later In Life
3/11/17 Clenbuterol is a steroid-like chemical that was initially developed to treat asthma in horses, working by relaxing the airways in the animals’ lungs This increase will lead to a variety of effects, such as: rapid fat burning excitability nervousness increased energy greater determination Why… Read More »What is clenbuterol? (Horse Asthma Drug – Used ‘recreationally’)
For Immediate Release November 1, 2017 As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ongoing efforts to protect consumers from health fraud, the agency today issued warning letters to four companies illegally selling products online that claim to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure cancer without… Read More »FDA warns companies marketing unproven products, derived from marijuana, that claim to treat or cure cancer
Oct. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Opioid addicts saved by the overdose reversal medication naloxone are still in danger following their close brush with death, a new study shows.About 10 percent of overdose patients saved with naloxone (Narcan) in Massachusetts hospitals ended up dying within… Read More »Lethal Dangers Lurk Even After Opioid OD Rescue – (Naloxone, no silver bullet!)
