June 10th, 2013
Google Still Allowing Ads for Illegal Online Pharmacies
Is there anything you can’t find on Google? Cross prescription pills off that list, as the Internet behemoth is in hot water for allowing illicit online pharmacies to advertise in search results. In 2011, Google forfeited $500 million to the Department of Justice for hosting illegal ads for ...
May 31st, 2013
Down and Out in America
In today’s barrage of natural disasters, domestic terrorism, and mass violence, Americans are demanding a better safety net. Primarily, they seek refuge from the 45.6 million people suffering from mental illnesses, including the 8 million that meet the criteria for substance abuse disorders. ...
May 16th, 2013
Man Tricks Girlfriend Into Taking Abortion Pills
28 year-old John Andrew Welden was indicted on one count first degree murder Tuesday in Florida after allegedly tricking his girlfriend into aborting their child. Tampa Bay Times reports that the crime took place in March after an ultrasound performed by the accused’s father, Dr. Stephen ...
May 6th, 2013
Whoonga Users Pose HIV/AIDS Threat
The term “drug cocktail” can have a number of different connotations. In the case of treating HIV or AIDS, doctors have developed a plan of attack in which patients take at least three antiretroviral medications (ARVs) at once. This strategy, known as “highly active antiretroviral therapy” ...
May 3rd, 2013
Suicide Rates Rise Sharply Among Baby Boomers
Suicide is typically considered a problem for adolescents and older Americans, but suicide rates have risen sharply among Baby Boomers in the last decade. Though suicide rates often rise during times of financial stress and economic setbacks, other contributing factors may be the easy access to ...
February 18th, 2013
McCready Makes Number Three: “Celebrity Rehab” To Blame For Singer’s Suicide?
Popular 90’s country singer Mindy McCready took her life Sunday with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Yellow tape sectioned off the porch of McCready’s Herber Springs, Arkansas home, the same spot where her boyfriend, David Wilson, reportedly took his own life last month. Country stars ...
August 14th, 2012
OxyContin Reformulation Fails to Curb Abuse
In an attempt to counter the sharp increases in opiate painkiller abuse, researchers came out with a new formulation of OxyContin in August 2010 that’s less soluble and harder to crush. OxyContin would then be more difficult to inject and inhale, the two most popular methods of administration ...
June 22nd, 2012
Dying for Triplicate: An Interview with Todd Zalkins
Many addicts can say they’ve been to hell and back. For Todd Zalkins, it took seventeen years, four types of painkillers, and a doctor describing his case as “the worst he had ever seen” to finally come back from the hell that was his painkiller addiction. Today, more than five years ...
April 9th, 2012
Prescription Painkillers: A Growing Trend
It has become common knowledge that legal drugs are not necessarily safe drugs, but recent figures released by the DEA suggest more people are ignoring this fact as the years go on. Prescription painkillers sales have skyrocketed in the last decade, and reports show that in 2010 alone 69 tons ...
July 28th, 2011
Mephedrone in the UK
4.4% of Brits between the ages of 16-24 have used mephedrone in the past year, according to the British Crime Survey. This is nearly the same percentage of people who have used cocaine.
July 8th, 2011
Legal Drug Overdoses in Florida
The death rate from illegal drugs is declining in Florida, but legal drug fatalities are more than making up for these gains.
June 1st, 2011
New Drug Developed to Erase Bad Memories
We all have memories that we all would like to forget. Mistakes made in the past, poor choices, we all realize our problems and do our best to forget them, but sometimes the strength of our memory does not permit us to. This may all be coming to a change. Around a week ago, researchers […]
May 16th, 2011
Prescription Drug Abuse Linked with Increase of Internet Access
With the rising growth of prescription drug abuse, researchers have been trying to determine the cause. The Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Southern California recently suggested that it may in fact be related to the people’s ever-increasing access to the internet and ...
March 28th, 2011
Pharmaceutical Prices Continue to Rise
As the country continues to wait on the results of health care reform, prices for popular pharmaceuticals are rising quickly ever as the patents expire on the top-selling medications. Fifteen of the best-selling drugs drugs rose at an incredibly high rate last year at 11.4%. This is the highest ...
March 22nd, 2011
West Coast Preparing for Japan Radiation Scare
With the unfortunate tsunami incident in Japan, Americans are beginning to raise their concerns for radiation levels. The destruction of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has caused numerous Americans to call for a monitoring of the food and drugs imported from Japan in order to test ...
October 29th, 2010
FDA deined approval for a new weight-loss drug: Qnexa
In July, an advisory committee to the FDA voted against approval of the Qnexa, a new weight-loss prescription drug. Qnexa is a combination of two pre-existing drugs: phentermine and topiramate. Concerns have been raised about whether the medication can cause birth defects, heart attack and ...
