Well, not really but something used as an anesthetic and abused as a club drug is now in trials to be used as an antidepressant. My first thought is, "huh?" While I am a big fan of evidence-based medicine, the trials of "club drugs" makes me always skeptical. It's weird to think about how progressive …
Category: Medications
Nicely done Colorado…
First, you were a model for how to legalize and sell recreational marijuana. In fact, you have managed to make the business profitable enough to pay for your state’s infrastructure. This post, however, is not about the legalization of cannabis. It’s about something almost as important, insulin. Just yesterday, May 23, the Colorado legislature approved …
Opiates…
So in an article in Wired, today discusses a concern not only to pain medicine but to addiction medicine. APRIL GROVE DOYLE, a 40-year-old single mom with metastatic breast cancer, pulled her car to the side of the road. Her face was flushed and her eyes puffy from crying, but she looked into the phone …
The “gateway drug” opens a new gate?
From the American Journal of Psychiatry via Gizmodo: A new study out Tuesday is the latest to suggest that cannabis—or at least a key ingredient of it—might help people struggling with addiction. It found that people with opioid use disorder experienced less symptoms of craving when given cannabidiol, or CBD, over a placebo. CBD …