Sentences with phrase «when opiates»

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And when my dentist yanked out my wisdom teeth, he prescribed me hydrocodone (also known as Vicodin)-- an opiate pain reliever that made me feel happy, floaty, and disconnected.

beyond believing fairy tales written 2000 years ago when being high on opiates was the in thing.

For Garaudy, religion is an opiate only (1) when it devalues the problems of this life as relatively unimportant, (2) when it conceives God as jealous of the autonomy of man, and (3) when it has recourse to a God of the gaps who supernaturally intervenes to solve human problems (RE 115 - 17).

When he cried, «If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me,» he clearly was not administering an opiate.

In an interesting chapter on the Marxian theme of religion as the «opiate of the people», Jose Miguez Bonino welcomes the criticism «as a valid warning against the self - deception and confusion which so easily creep into a political programme of any sort when it is clothed in religious language».

When Lenin said that religion is the opiate of the people, I know exactly and intimately what he means.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubWhen Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubwhen their conscience ought to be troubled.

It was this love and passion that allowed you to savour victory and success to to an opiate - like degree and that eased your pain when that success was fleeting, as it so often is in football.

I knew that I wouldn't use an Opiate or a Caine derived drug BEFORE I was pregnant, so it confused me as to why people would be so shocked by the idea of NOT using controlled substances when there was a baby inside me.

Even codeine, an opiate medication commonly prescribed to women following childbirth, has been fatal to newborns, when it has built up in the baby's system over several days.

Many of the epidural side effects mentioned below are not improved with low - dose or walking epidurals, because women using these techniques may still receive a substantial total dose of local anesthetic, especially when continuous infusions and / or patient - controlled boluses (single large doses) are used.34 The addition of opiate drugs in epidurals or CSEs can create further risks for the mother, such as pruritus (itching) and respiratory depression (see below).

There are also reports of newborn drug toxicity from epidural drugs, especially opiates administered via epidural.80 Newborn opiate toxicity seems more likely when higher dose regimes are used, including those where the mother is able to self - administer extra doses, although it also seems that there are wide differences in individual newborn sensitivity.81

One group has documented that, when placed skin - to - skin on the mother's chest, a newborn can crawl up, find the nipple, and self - attach.114 Newborns affected by opiate drugs in labor or separated from their mothers briefly after birth lose much of this ability.

There is, just BTW plenty of evidence that opiate pain relief, when used appropriately for acute severe pain and followed up closely, does NOT causes relapse for the vast majority of people.

Marking said he's been on scene when a young woman addicted to opiates had to be revived with narcan, an anti-overdose drug, only for paramedics to learn that she's three months pregnant.

At a time when fatal heroin and opioid overdoses have risen to unprecedented rates — 10 suspected opiate overdose deaths a week in Erie County — many area families complain that health care insurers are denying coverage for loved ones seeking medication and inpatient treatment for their addictions.

When administered correctly, the nasal spray Narcan restores breathing that has been dangerously slowed by an opiate overdose.

When he talked with members of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, he urged the county to allocate more resources to personal outreach.

Uhl and crew then produced mice that had half the normal number of opiate receptors and as a result, experienced greater discomfort when exposed to a standard mildly painful stimulus.

«At a time in history when an unprecedented number of people are getting hooked on narcotic opiates by way of prescribed medications — as is the case with migraine sufferers as well — we owe it to ourselves as physicians to try medications that could work without the risk of addiction,» says Klein.

Interestingly, when Dr. Laviolette's team looked at dopamine signaling inside another brain region also involved in opiate related memory procession, and located closer to the surface of the brain, the mPFC, they found that this signaling was also switched by opiate exposure, but opposite to what was observed in the BLA.

According to the MedUni Vienna forensic medicine experts, these results will in turn impact upon the future treatment and management of people with opiate dependencies and heroin addicts, particularly when it comes to drug withdrawal: «If the addictive craving persists in the brain for months, it is very important to provide protracted after - care and corresponding psychological support,» says Seltenhammer.

Mike, 22, a heroin addict who began using opiates when he was 13, pauses to shoot - up by a railway underpass in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, which has become a hub for heroin use.

Adding the opiate blocker naltrexone to the combination of behavioral therapy and nicotine patches boosted smoking cessation rates for women by almost 50 percent when assessed after eight weeks of treatment, but made no difference for men, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the October 2006 issue of the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research.

I also went through four weeks of opiate related withdrawal symptoms from the casomorphin [e] when I gave up the Holstein cow dairy (with the exception of grass - fed butter and clarified butter).

When evaluating your more natural options for pain — options that do not carry the same risks as opiates, NSAIDS, and acetaminophen — make sure you use products that have published human clinical studies whenever possible — because not all botanicals are created equal.

Wheat and other grains contain opiates and when people break this addiction, as with any junkie they go cold turkey for a while.

While we've already pointed out how CBD and the endocannabinoid system work to bring about overall health to the body and mind, opiates and opioids disrupt the entire body when used over the long term causing the symptoms listed below.

Gijs, the theory is that when the «reward center» is blocked by LDN, the body produces more of the natural opiates that help the immune system and other systems in the body, to compensate for the blockage, which is temporary at any rate.

So, essentially what you're doing when you block opiate receptors is you cause the body to make more endorphins.

And yes, there are days when I take my Ultracet — an opiate.

Learning is best fostered when schools draw boundaries that separate classroom studies from the opiates of street life.

As the MRO, you must proceed as follows when you receive a laboratory confirmed positive opiate result:

Among the many drugs used are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), opiate medications such as Buprenex and morphine, and localized pain patches when needed.

Did the system operate in the relevant prisons or any of them at any material time (and if so which and when) of (i) stopping the community prescribed opiate maintenance prescriptions of opiate dependant prisioners and (ii) offering them only a detoxification regime?

A huge part of the responsibility, she added, is on doctors to avoid prescribing opiate painkillers when not completely necessary — for they can lead to addictions to stronger drugs.