Sentences with phrase «otherwise safe drugs»

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Taking dangerous quantities of the otherwise safe loperamide is one strategy being used by people addicted to opioid painkillers and other drugs since it can increase opioid absorption in the gut; the FDA says it is now working with loperamide manufacturers to change its packaging so that it comes with fewer doses and is thus harder to abuse.

Toby, I agree with almost everything you say except for «many people who would otherwise use dangerous drugs like alcohol or heroin would choose (safe & healthy) cannabis instead.»

The opposite effect is more likely: many people who would otherwise use dangerous drugs like alcohol or heroin would choose (safe & healthy) cannabis instead.

«A compound is considered safe (by the Food and Drug Administration) until proven otherwise.»

What is most remarkable about the more recent study is not that turmeric curcuminoids have potent anti-inflammatory properties — there are already hundreds of studies confirming its COX - 2 reducing and otherwise anti-inflammary effects — but rather how much safer they are relative to NSAID drugs like diclofenac, which like most pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory drugs have been linked to adverse health effects such as increased cardiac mortality, miscarriage and seizure.