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Painkillers Cause Addiction within Just Three Days

dasha — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:16:06 +0000

Over-the-counter painkillers taken by millions of people around the world can become addictive within just three days, according to scientists. The drugs in question include Nurofen and Solpadeine and contain one of the opiates – codeine. They are routinely used to ease headaches, period pain and backaches.

The UK authorities have officially announced about thousands of Britons who are dependent on codeine-based painkillers. Most of them got hooked on codeine in Nurofen and Solpadeine accidentally, with women developing an addiction more often than men.

Concerns about a “hidden addiction” got the government to address the problem. From the next year, the warnings will be put on all packets of those drugs, saying: “Can cause addiction. For three days use only”. The packet size available to buy without prescription will be reduced to 32 pills from the current 100 pills per packet.

The efforts followed the parliamentary group report on drug misuse which highlighted the dangers related to the drugs. Officials say that there are about 32,000 people hooked on painkillers in the UK. All the drugs contain codeine, an opiate related to heroine and morphine. There are examples of drug-induced addictions when people took 71 pills a day, jeopardizing their lives and health.

Codeine withdrawal symptoms include sweating, irritability and nausea. However, this kind of addiction often goes unnoticed because the regular intake of painkillers is seen as socially acceptable. Physicians often don’t know about the addiction and addicts are too ashamed to look for help or struggle for the support they need.

If you suspect you’ve become addicted on painkillers, consult your physician.

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First Swine Flu Vaccines Are Being Prepared for Use Next Month

tania — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:41:32 +0000

The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps working on getting the first swine flu vaccines licensed and ready for public use from the beginning of this fall, and keeps us informed about the headway.

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Glaucoma Drug Helps Eyelashes Grow

Geniusbeauty.com — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:00:39 +0000

If you have short eyelashes, a drug designed to cure glaucoma will help you. I’m talking here about the new product, which is known around the world as Bimatoprost (in US also sold as Lumigan). Recently the final clinical tests were held in US, which showed that the drug is highly effective at treating glaucoma. However, the “side-effects” of this drug included longer and darker eyelashes.(...)
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How to Forget Bad Experiences?

Geniusbeauty.com — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:47:47 +0000

Trying to forget something that happened to you in the past but still hurts? Experts at the Medical College of Georgia, US, can now erase unpleasant memories from the brain areas responsible for memory without compromising their functions. This kind of experiment, however, has been conducted only on lab mice so far. In the course of trials, the scientists implemented new treatment using a special type of protein.(...)
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How to Get Natural Hair Color Back?

Geniusbeauty.com — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:24:56 +0000

All older-aged women have always dreamed of a beauty product that could give the hair back its youthful look. But what we yearn for is more than simply hair dyes to conceal sings of aging. In fact, we want grey hair never appear. Scientists from the University of Manchester and Luebeck University in Germany claim they can now offer a remedy for grey hair after they conducted a number of successful lab experiments.(...)
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Juices Inhibit Drugs Absorption

Geniusbeauty.com — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:16:16 +0000

Scientists at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, discovered the components of fruit juices inhibit the absorption of drugs into the blood. So far, it has been known only about bergamottin in grapefruit juice that reduces the activity of ferment responsible for breaking down drugs in the bowels.(...)
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Love Is Narcotic

Geniusbeauty.com — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:53:40 +0000

It turns out that love is somewhat like narcotic. Love becomes addictive, produces physical and physiological dependence and even withdrawal syndrome. Scientists at British National Centre for Narcology have come to that point. After they’d conducted many studies and interviewed lovers, scientists discovered that outburst of love caused the physiological changes in brain similar to those under cocaine or heroine.(...)
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New Drug Treats the Common Cold in a Few Hours

Geniusbeauty.com — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:24:33 +0000

In Great Britain one of the largest pharmacological companies is preparing the release of a new, extra strong drug against cold. Specialists state, that this drug not only can help you forget about running nose for a couple of hours but can also prevent the development of various infections which can become dangerous for asthmatics.(...)
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Natural Aphrodisiacs. Boost Libido without Viagra

Geniusbeauty.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:09:48 +0000

I was recently answering a comment to my article “Why couples conflict about sex” and thought, that it would be a good idea to share some useful (I hope) information about natural aphrodisiacs with you. Why? Because today lots of people are crazy about Viagra and other drugs which boost libido without even trying to increase it the natural way. There are ways of doing this, namely using natural aphrodisiacs, and these are available for everybody. So, you could easily try them. (...)
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Expensive Drugs Cure Better than Cheap Ones

Geniusbeauty.com — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:19:53 +0000

The more expensive the drug, the more effective it is, claim scientists from Duke University, U.S. Besides, this is connected not so much with the good quality of expensive drugs, as with the psychological mood of the patients thinking, that expensive medicines will cure them without fail. Such placebo effect appeared during an interesting experiment. (...)
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