UC Expert Researching Drug Abuse Treatment
UC expert researching drug abuse treatment
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He said the stimulation of deep areas of the brain (DBS) that were affected by drug abuse disease had emerged as a new method of treating neuropsychiatric disorders. … last 12 months up to a third of them were cigarette smokers, and this form of …
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Israeli Company Wins FDA Approval For Bone Cancer Treatment
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Israeli med-tech company InSightec Image Guided Treatment has announced that it has been approved for US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarketing of its ExAblate targeted focused ultrasound treatment for the removal of bone tumors. According …
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Meningitis outbreak raises questions over Medicare methods
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In 2007, Medicare stopped coverage for compounded inhalation drugs used to treat lung disease. "The absence of testing for safety and effectiveness has the potential of putting a patient at increased risk of injury, illness or death," said an …
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Bath Salts Drug Addiction – www.askinspiremalibu.com http Along with established threats like Spice and Salvia, new designer drugs derived from “Research Chemicals” are tearing families and communities apart across the country. The horrific reality is that Research Chemicals are virtually unregulated by the FDA and easy to get online, and are essentially repackaged as various designer drugs, which are deadly. While there has been successful nationwide efforts to make designer drugs like Bath Salts, Salvi, and K12, illegal, the Research Chemicals are unregulated and therefore nearly impossible to control, which is why the only way to impact the current situation is by arming people with information. Leading the wave of designer drugs is a horrific substance referred to as “Bath Salts,” that users are ingesting in order to get a hallucinogenic high, which comes with a side of extreme paranoia and raging anger. Bath Salts contain mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a stimulant that can be broken up and snorted, smoked or reduced to a liquid for injection just like cocaine. Since the effects of Bath Salts are similar to cocaine, meth and ecstasy, dangerous amounts of Dopamine and very low levels of Serotonin impact the user’s brain, which results in severely damaged brain chemistry and inevitable psychosis with prolonged use. The most terrifying effect of Bath Salts is found after users ingest the drug for multiple days. Since the drug has a much longer half-life than other drugs, abusers …