Sentences with phrase «other opiate drug»
Naloxone can reverse a heroin or other opiate drug overdose within minutes, but it has no effect on people who do not have an opiate drug in their system and side effects are rare, according to information from the DuPage Narcan Program given to Orland Park trustees.
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For more than a decade, scientists have been working to figure out how poppies convert glucose into the precursors for morphine and other opiate drugs.
Not exact matches
Major League Baseball lists cannabis as a drug of abuse, alongside cocaine, opiates, MDMA, LSD, and a handful of other Schedule I and Schedule II drugs.
Other common side effects of epidurals include: inability to pass urine (and requirement for a urinary catheter) for up to two - thirds of women; 38 itching of the skin (pruritus) for up to two - thirds of women administered an opiate drug via epidural; 39, 40 shivering for up to one in three women; 41 sedation for around one in five women; 42 and nausea and vomiting for one in 20 women.43
While legislators are extending the use of one drug — alcohol — they also acted to restrict the use of other drugs — heroin and opiates.
The drugs currently used to treat chronic pain — aspirin and morphine along with other opiates — don't work very well and are often addictive.
Morikawa expects likewise from other addictive drugs, such as opiates and nicotine — the common thread: increased dopamine levels.
In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.
At the same time that Purdue and other big pharma companies were hosting symposia, they doubled their sales force and gave doctors 30 - day free coupons so they could let patients try these drugs for pain that previously wasn't managed using opiates.
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And as doctors become more cautious before prescribing opiate - based drugs to prevent abuse, addicts are looking to other sources including drugs meant for animals.
Other drugs that may be prescribed include corticosteroids, antibiotics, opiates for post-surgery pain management, and anti-inflammatories.
As such, these drugs, along with other opiates, carry significant penalties.
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