Alcohol and Your Brain

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Painkillers prevent marijuana-induced memory problems?

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"The results suggest that the use of medical marijuana could be broadened if patients concurrently take a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug such as ibuprofen." In the new study, Chen and his colleagues discovered that treatment with the active …
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HIV – More than a medical condition?

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Clearly, anyone who did not practise safer sexual or drug use behaviour, or who in health care settings did not adopt safer working practices such as not re-using un-sterilised equipment, was at risk of HIV and other infectious disease transmission …
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Psychiatric News

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Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that generic drugs—unlike branded drugs—were not required to have updated safety labels, even after discovery of new side effects associated with the medications. Last month, the FDA proposed … This …
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FDA OKs high-dose narcotic painkiller Zohydro, raising abuse concerns

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Against the recommendation of its own advisers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new high-dose narcotic painkiller without an abuse-limiting formula and tested using a method critics describe as stacking the deck in favor of the drug.
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