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By Randi Sokol, MD, MPH, MMedEd Apr 15, 2021 How can we as providers help patients succeed in their buprenorphine/naloxone (B/N) induction? For many patients starting on buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone), this is an “old hat” for them. They have either been getting B/N (buprenorphine/naloxone) “off the street” or have been on B/N in the past. These patients have experience making this transition and usually require little instruction or support. They probably could even teach us about a...

By BY BRANDON SODERBERG APR 18, 2017 AT 9:33 PM A powerful, well-known strain of medicinal marijuana—which is, yes, named after a race of aliens from Star Trek—has more of a painkiller high than a weed high. And along with helping with physical pain, it's useful for relieving anxiety and increasing appetite and just generally pulling one out of one's own body and mind. To be a bit gauche: If you've ever snorted heroin, it's sort of that pleasant feeling minus the whole rather loaded thing...

“The serotonin theory is as close as any theory in the history of science to having been proved wrong. Instead of curing depression, popular antidepressants may induce a biological vulnerability making people more likely to become depressed in the future.” Zeitschrift für Psychologie 2014; 222(3): 128–134. doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000176 PMID: 25279271 Irving Kirsch” “Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials on...

Half a century ago, Congress declared that there is no legitimate use for psilocybin. State and local governments are finally challenging that judgment. JACOB SULLUM | FROM THE MARCH 2021 ISSUE Reason (Nick Veasey/Science Photo Library/Getty) In 1968, just 11 years after the international banker and amateur mycologist R. Gordon Wasson introduced Americans to "magic mushrooms" in a landmark Life magazine story, the federal government banned them. That was how long it took for this object of...

You really have to work hard to get hooked on smoking opium. The Victorian-era form of the drug, known as chandu, is rare, and the people who know how to use it aren’t exactly forthcoming. But leave it to an obsessive antiques collector to figure out how to get to addicted to a 19th-century drug.

I thought this might be of interest to some. 24 November, 2020 - 19:00 ashley cowie When you think of psychedelics and the United States, famous psychonauts like Timothy Leary, Gerry Garcia and Jim Morrison come to mind. In the 1991 movie, The Doors , Jim Morrison got seriously stoned and wandered out into the New Mexico desert experiencing the full optical range of nature. But a new study suggests he was only one explorer in a long and ancient line of North American trippers . Datura - a...

When used for pain control, opioids lessen discomfort by intercept the message and block the pain sensor from reaching the brain. (Photo credit Getty Images) By Tamara Markard | [email][email protected][/email] | Greeley Tribune PUBLISHED: October 24, 2020 at 7:55 p.m. | UPDATED: October 27, 2020 at 12:29 p.m. Editor’s Note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series looking into the opioid epidemic across the U.S., rehabilitation options in Weld County and stories from people who have overcome or are...

"Police have revealed details of a massive drug bust in St. John’s, spanning several provinces. Superintendent Tom Warren addressed media this morning. The RNC seized about $6-million worth of illicit drugs including cocaine, cannabis, shatter, MDMA, LSD, mushroom, hash, and edibles. In addition, they seized $182,000 in cash and a “pill press,” the first of its kind in the province. It can produce up to 20,000 pills in an hour. The RNC also seized six guns, ammunition, brass knuckles,...

Mdpv- too experienced- interactions and lack thereof Subject: 45kg female. ~Twenty 13 years of age. Hx: binge use of methylphenidate, phendimetrazine. occasional recreational use of mixed amphetamine salts. just doesn't get cocaine- less so now that she's on a prescription med that blocks it (and methamphetamine, and MDMA) entirely. Rx: bupropion, oral contraceptives, topiramate, potassium chloride, ranitidine, tiotropium bromide, albuterol. T+0 (3:30) night 25mg magical dancing...

Americans know the dangers of drugs such as morphine and heroin. But what about a supplement that acts in the brain a bit like an opiate and is available in many places to kids — even from vending machines. Kratom, an herb that's abundant, legal in most states and potentially dangerous, is the subject of an ongoing debate over its risks and benefits. Usually, the leaf, which comes from a tropical Southeast Asian tree, is chewed, brewed or crushed into a bitter green powder. The chemicals...

How does the main active ingredient of ayahuasca impact what happens in the brain? A new study investigates. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew that people from the Amazonian regions traditionally use as a spiritual medicine. This brew reportedly induces strong hallucinations, but what, exactly, does it do to the brain? How does the main active ingredient of ayahuasca impact what happens in the brain? A new study investigates. Researchers have discovered evidence of ayahuasca — also known...

The safety and long term health effects of using electronic cigarettes or other vaping products are still not well known. In September 2019, federal and state health authorities began investigating an outbreak of a severe lung disease associated with e-cigarettes and other vaping productsTrusted SourceTrusted Source. We are closely monitoring the situation and will update our content as soon as more information is available. Nicotine is the primary substance in cigarettes that causes...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged 41 people in nine indictments for their alleged involvement in a network of "pill mills" that allegedly resulted in the diversion of roughly 23 million oxycodone, hydrocodone, and carisoprodol pills.

‘People on antidepressants long-term say they feel blunted, with psychedelic therapy it’s the opposite, they talk about an emotional release, a reconnection’ Hallucination-inducing drugs like magic mushrooms could be about to break big pharma’s stranglehold on the hugely lucrative market for antidepressants, according to the head of the world’s first centre for psychedelic research. Antidepressant prescriptions have doubled in England in a decade with around seven million adults taking the...

By Jonathan O. Cole, MD and Alexander J. Bodkin, MD Current Psychiatry. 2002 June;1(6):40-47 Many fully trained psychiatrists, even psychopharmacologists, have rarely prescribed a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), afraid of the possible consequences. One Boston-area psychiatrist who plans to retire soon has 12 patients who have been doing well for years on MAOIs. Before he called us, no psychiatrist in the area was willing to accept these patients who intended to stay on MAOIs. Despite...