In their most recent study, Norwegian researchers have found that morphine patches, which were at first created to reduce and control painkiller consumption, actually create addiction in the very people who were trying to quit the drugs. One of the main reasons for this, experts at the Norwegian University of Science... |
18 May 2009
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A San Francisco transplant surgeon faces criminal charges for the death of one of his patients, one Ruben Navarro, who was allegedly "pushed" to die by over-medication with morphine and a substance called Ativan, which is a sedative. Doctor Hootan Roozrokh was already cleared of two other felony charges earlier this ... |
4 November 2008
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Fallout 3’ effective ban from sales in Australia is text book example of how games should not be treated by censors. The Office of Film and Literature Classification in Australia, known as the OFLC, only charged with rating games because the politicians could not tell that the new medium of expression has rather diff... |
5 August 2008
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Morphine, heroine and other opioid drugs are the best known painkillers, but they come with a high risk: in many patients they provoke addiction, the body requiring gradually increasing amounts to ease pain. A new study presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and carried on in rats revealed th... |
15 November 2007
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One dose and you are hooked up. Researchers have been investigating for a long time the powerful effect of the opioid drugs, like morphine or heroin, in search of a treatment for addiction. A new Brown University research found morphine to stop the synapse-strengthening in the brain, a phenomenon called long-term pot... |
26 April 2007
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