Source: More drivers in fatal crashes in Colorado are testing for marijuana use, at higher levels
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Trends in Prescription Opioids Detected in Fatally Injured Drivers in 6 US States: 1995–2015 | AJPH | Ahead of Print
Results. The prevalence of prescription opioids detected in fatally injured drivers increased from 1.0% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.5, 1.4) in 1995 to 7.2% (95% CI = 5.7, 8.8) in 2015 (Z = −9.04; P < .001). Prescription opioid prevalence was higher in female than in male drivers (4.4% vs 2.9%; P < .001). Of the drivers testing positive for prescription opioids, 30.0% had elevated blood alcohol concentrations (≥ 0.01 g/dL), and 66.9% tested positive for other drugs.
Houston…we have a problem.
How Much Are Docs Responsible for Patients’ Opioid Abuse? – Medpage Today
F. Perry Wilson, MD, looks at the data on how patients get hooked
Source: How Much Are Docs Responsible for Patients’ Opioid Abuse? | Medpage Today
And if you’re having trouble falling asleep one night here’s the link to the source study.
Source: Incident and long-term opioid therapy among patients with ps… : PAIN
FDA Adds New Warnings to All Testosterone Product Labels
Testosterone and other AAS, which have a schedule III classification by the Controlled Substances Act, may be abused by adults and adolescents, including athletes and body builders.
“Abuse of testosterone, usually at doses higher than those typically prescribed and usually in conjunction with other AAS, is associated with serious safety risks affecting the heart, brain, liver, mental health, and endocrine system,” the FDA notes.
Reported serious adverse outcomes include myocardial infarction, heart failure, stroke, depression, hostility, aggression, liver toxicity, and male infertility. People abusing high doses of testosterone have also reported withdrawal symptoms, such as depression, fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite, decreased libido, and insomnia, the agency says.
Source: FDA Adds New Warnings to All Testosterone Product Labels
It is interesting you no longer see those Low-T commercials on television any more. Really? Just another clever marketing campaign to create a disease that doesn’t exist along with a convenient drug based solution. What side effects?
Read this book. Now.
Source: Bill Moyers Journal . Profile . Melody Petersen | PBS
Drug Tests: More American Workers Are Testing Positive
Goodbye opioids. Hello heroin. Cheaper and easier to get heroin nowadays than prescription pain killers.
Source: Drug Tests: More American Workers Are Testing Positive
The number of U.S. workers testing positive for illegal drugs has reached its highest level in a decade, according to a new study. With a huge jump in heroin use.
Cardiac Effects of Loperamide OD – The Poison Review
Source: Cardiac effects of loperamide overdose | The Poison Review
Just when you start to think you’ve heard it all you stumble upon this article. I’ve never thought about taking mass quantities of anti-diarrheal medication for the purpose of getting high.
A little-known manifestation of loperamide toxicity is cardiac dysrhythmias. This case report describes a 48-year-old woman who had ingested up to 40 tablets 2-mg loperamide daily for several weeks to “get a high.”
I’m practically speechless.
What is Meldonium? – The Guardian
Meldonium is also known as mildronate, it increases exercise capacity in athletes and the Olympic figure skater Ekaterina Bobrova admitted to testing positive to the drug on Monday
Source: What is meldonium and why did Maria Sharapova use it? | Sport | The Guardian
W-18, a synthetic opiate 100 times more potent than Fentanyl – The Poison Review
Last August, Canadian police seized 110 illegal fentanyl pills at a home in Alberta province. Yesterday, Global News reported that some of the pills have tested positive for an extremely potent opi…
Source: W-18, a synthetic opiate 100 times more potent than fentanyl | The Poison Review
Legal marijuana is now a billion-dollar industry in Colorado – Quartz
Cannabis-Related ED Visits Rise in States With Legalized Use
Cannabis-Related ED Visits Rise in States With Legalized Use.
A second poster presented at the AAAP meeting examined “impact on the healthcare system” and showed that 10,532,658 ED visits due to any type of substance abuse occurred between 2007 and 2011 in the United States.
During that period, cannabis-related ED visits increased 67.8%, and alcohol-related visits increased by 49%. Also increasing were visits related to opioids (by 42%), hallucinogens (40.4%), sedatives (40%), and amphetamines (20.6%).
Interestingly, the percentage of visits related to cocaine use decreased by 67.9%.
“This poster is definitely starting to bring out some of the real concerns that I have as a healthcare provider ― that you are exposing more people to higher potency and riskier forms of the substance. This is not the shake weed that somebody smoked in the ’70s. This is four times more potent. It’s a much riskier proposition than a lot of people think.” Dr Ryan Caldeiro
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