Oakland Tribune - No pain, our gain: Medication use up 90 percent
August 21, 2007 -- WASHINGTON -- Retail sales of five leading painkillers nearly doubled over the last eight years, reflecting a surge in use by patients nationwide who ...
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Sunday Mirror - MEDICINE 'ADDICTS'
August 19, 2007 -- SOME over-the-counter pills are addictive, a group working with addicts has claimed. Phil O'Sullivan, deputy administrator at Tabor Lodge Addiction ...
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Business Wire - Pain, Pseudoaddiction Caused Howard Hughes' Eccentric Behavior, Lifestyle, Says Dr. Forest Tennant, One of Nation's Top Drug Abuse, Pain Treatment Authorities
August 13, 2007 -- Reevaluation of Medical Data Contradicts Popular Beliefs About Hughes WEST COVINA, Calif. -- Dr. Forest Tennant, one of the nation's leading drug abuse and pain treatment authorities and a medica
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Stopping the cycle: Controversial methadone programs strive to help
July 1, 2007 -- Every day before dawn, men and women line up in front of a building at 150 East and 700 South in Salt Lake City to get a daily dose of methadone to ...
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Independent, The (London) - Doctors call for more research into addiction to over-the-counter
May 4, 2007 -- Doctors have called for large-scale research into the extent of the nation's addiction to over-the-counter drugs , such as the painkillers Solpadeine ...
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Independent, The (London) - The magic pills that cure our modern ills
March 29, 2007 -- The death of Anna Nicole Smith last month was a tawdry end for a larger-than-life character. The glamorous former Playboy model was found dead in her ...
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Independent, The (London) - 'I wasn't warned about addiction'
February 27, 2007 -- CO-CODAMOL AND COLD TURKEY Last summer, I took the painkiller co-codamol for back pain. I started with the lowest dose of codeine (8mg), but then ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer, The - Origins
November 20, 2006 -- THE STORY SO FARHours before DEA agents are to arrest Internet drug dealers in a worldwide sweep, Temple grad student Akhil Bansal races from his Roxborough ...
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Clinical Psychiatry News - Take patient's word in judging chronic pain.(pain management guidelines)
November 1, 2006 -- ORLANDO -- Do not confuse addiction with physical dependence when prescribing opioids for your chronic pain patients, Dr. Jennifer P. Schneider advised at the annual clinical meeting of the Ame
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Men's Health Advisor - Options for osteoarthritis pain: despite concerns about certain pain medications, arthritis sufferers still have medicinal, non-medicinal sources of relief.(Pain
July 1, 2006 -- More than 20 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis. With the advent of COX-2 selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and ...
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