Topic: prescription medications

Just tracking alone seems to significantly reduce reliance on opioids.

So-called “Dr. Feelgoods” have been around for as long as I can remember.

Despite the collateral damage, Big Pharma seems determined to preserve the market for its products, through sophisticated lobbying.

From a patient’s viewpoint, physicians can be somewhat blase’ about risks associated with a medication.

The firm’s managers conclude that sales would be a whole lot better if the disorder were better publicized and more people were diagnosed with it.

We’re talking about legal responsibility now, and that can run far afield from conventional moral judgment.

Some states have gone bonkers in their haste to make medical pot available for a host of conditions where it likely won’t be of much use.

There are so many opiates and opioids out there that for purposes of comparison, their strength is measured in relation to morphine, the principal painkilling component of opium.

The flaw in this very late-stage view of addiction… is the suggestion that somehow, addiction is the patient’s fault. Avoidable if the patient simply followed directions.

High CBD content reduces the potency of the THC in cannabis.