Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
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Jazzed on GHB
Anybody concerned that some GHB-based prescribed meds will be diverted for illicit use?
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Ketamine and The Hype Around It
I was surprised to learn that the antidepressant effects of ketamine were completely blocked by naltrexone, an opioid antagonist. That certainly suggests ketamine is making use of the brain’s opioid systems…
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A Problem In Prescribing — Part 2
I did ask a veteran ER physician for one suggestion that he felt would actually help both doctor and patient in the ER setting. His answer: Peer Support services.
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Another Look: Big Pharma & the Opioids
It’s possible something similar is happening today, perhaps not with an opioid but with some other class of drug. Maybe we simply aren’t aware of it yet.
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Another Look at Gabapentin
A family physician in New Mexico mentioned having seen several new patients, all young, over the course of a few weeks – all of whom claimed to be on unusually high-doses of the drug, and seeking new prescriptions.
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Ketamine for AUD?
“How many fewer days?” was my question. Looks like about 10%.
So if the subject ordinarily drank every day, they eliminated one drinking day in ten?
Pill Mills Face Punishment
A functioning pill mill can be extraordinarily lucrative for those who own or operate them. The profits go untaxed, remember.
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Boosting Ketamine
Originally developed to replace PCP as a fast-acting anesthetic, it quickly morphed into a party drug, then as another product sold in street drug markets.
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Fake Pills Redux
Some genuinely bad news: a larger-than-usual share of the fakes are likely to exceed the two-milligram threshold for a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. As many as two in five, according to DEA.
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Drugstore Drama
…they’ll argue that since the doctors wrote the prescriptions, there’s no way the pharmacists could be expected to refuse them.
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It’s Back – GHB
Now this really sounds like what we heard from Purdue Pharma in the early days of the Oxycontin epidemic.
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Placebo Power
I’ve heard from various physicians over the years that as patient visits grow ever briefer– down to 11 minutes in some clinical settings– doctors are increasingly quick with the prescription pad.
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