Topic: prescription medications
Rogue Pharmacies
Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?
Topics: drug trafficking, opioids, prescription medications
Cannabis and Mental Health
Even if it turns out to be ineffective for patients, buying cannabis products certainly gives a boost to the sales figures.
Topics: cannabis, prescription medications, research
Truth Comes Out
Some people are surprised that someone could function at such a high level in public despite significant drug use, but that’s something addiction has been known for.
Topics: opioids, prescription medications, risk factors
“Addicted”? Or “dependent”?
But it’s still confusing for many people outside the field, since unlike psychiatry, they don’t revise their thinking every couple decades.
Topics: diagnosis, physical effects, prescription medications
Tricky Opioid Payouts
I’m no lawyer, but it makes me think of robbing a bank and returning 20% of the spoils to avoid jail.
Topics: opioids, prescription medications
Cheaters Do Get Caught…
These multi-billion dollar fines sound enormous, but like the one levied on Facebook, they represent a small portion of the company’s actual assets.
Topics: drug trafficking, epidemiology, opioids, prescription medications
“Stay Tuned”
Legal responsibility, however, is quite different. J&J’s attorneys will do whatever they can to shift blame elsewhere.
Topics: opioids, prescription medications
Mission Not Accomplished
It’s a real challenge for the folks on the ground to fit their reality into the prescribed format of a Federal grant.
Topics: prescription medications
Esketamine Second Thoughts
The first trials did not demonstrate effectiveness beyond placebo. So the FDA allowed a third trial which apparently did, at least a little.
Topics: depression, prescription medications