Healthy Outlook: Narcotic treatment of chronic pain

Should you or your relative take narcotics for your chronic pain? Should you be worried if you or someone you love takes narcotics regularly? Is your loved one that takes prescription narcotics addicted, or just treating his or her pain?

Research warns that teens may be doing more damage with marijuana than they realize

Key life skills can be muddled by marijuana use during brain's spurt of development during teen years, some researchers and counselors say.

OxyContin crisis grows

By some estimates, OxyContin is now the second most abused drug in the city, yet there remains a gap in services for those trying to escape addiction.[...]

Opiate use/abuse is a growing problem

We know that from the national level to locally, opiate use/abuse is on the rise. This is a growing problem, but there are ways to deal with it. The first piece is to educate a community on what the problem is and can be.

Use caution

Booze, liquor, alcohol. Whatever you call it, it's all the same. And during college is when many people begin experimenting with alcohol. Parties and going out to bars can be fun, but there are some things you should know about alcohol before you decide to hit the town. If you do decide to drink while in college, be smart about it by following our tips and being educated about the ramifications ...

Pivotal Phase 3 Study Compares Tapentadol Extended Release Tablets to Placebo in Patients with Chronic Osteoarthritis ...

RARITAN, N.J., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Phase 3 safety and efficacy data comparing tapentadol extended release (ER) tablets, an investigational pain medication, to placebo in patients with moderate to severe chronic osteoarthritis knee pain have been published by Clinical Drug Investigation. In addition, this study compared oxycodone controlled release (CR) to placebo as an active control ...

Prescription drug abuse summit held in Tampa

By Nicole Hutcheson, Times Staff Writer Friday, August 27, 2010 TAMPA — Come December, medical professionals will have a new tool to determine whether a patient is abusing prescription drugs. But some worry that the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, a new state system that tracks narcotic dispensing, will add a burden to their already heavy workload. Others question the privacy aspect of the ...

Smoking marijuana helps reduce pain, trial shows

Researchers in Montreal have completed what they say is the first placebo-controlled clinical trial to show that smoking pot really helps to relieve pain.

Second Tampa Bay summit on prescription drug abuse gathers in Tampa

Nicole Hutcheson, Times Staff Writer Friday, August 27, 2010 Times Staff Writer TAMPA -- What can law enforcement do to deter prescription drug abuse? How can doctors tell the difference between an addict and someone in real pain? How can you treat pain on a more spiritual level? More than 140 people gathered Friday morning at the Marriott Waterside to address these questions during a summit on ...

America’s mental illness epidemic: It turns out that the drugs are the problem

Tens of millions of innocent, unsuspecting Americans, who are mired deeply in the mental “health” system, have actually been made crazy by the use of or the withdrawal from commonly-prescribed, brain-altering, brain-disabling, indeed brain-damaging psychiatric drugs that have been, for many decades, cavalierly handed out like candy -- often in untested and therefore unapproved combinations of ...