First Person – Xanax Dependence
...if a patient simply follows the prescribed directions, they can’t possibly get in trouble with a medication like Xanax? I find that remarkably naive.
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About Benzo Withdrawal
Yes, they’re effective — for a week or two. After that, most of their effectiveness has eroded. If someone is still taking them on a daily basis, it’s probably an indication of growing dependence
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A Bewildering Mix
As many as fifty of these NPS designer drugs have been found to date. That sounds like a lot until we realize the potential for hundreds more to appear in future.
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Tapering off sleeping pills
It doesn’t much matter whether the primary addiction was to a depressant or a stimulant or some combination of both – sleep difficulties often persist well into recovery.
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A Disturbing Trend in Prescribing
This in spite of the fact … that these drugs can and often do interact harmfully with one another. And regular users are at elevated risk for misuse, abuse, dependence, and/or addiction.
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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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Quick Update– Opioids & Something New
It appears that the presence of other drugs in the fentanyl and heroin currently flooding our streets has made naloxone, the opioid antagonist that is our primary weapon against OD fatalities, far less likely to be effective.
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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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Labeling Benzos
For a long time, many medical professionals were resistant to the idea that benzos could be hazardous unless the patient took too many at once, or mixed them with alcohol.
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Excited Delirium? Ketamine on the Street
Excited delirium is a term widely recognized in emergency medicine yet somehow lacks a single accepted definition.
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