by Valiant | Aug 15, 2016 | Alcohol abuse, medical studies
A new study has researchers concluding that alcohol use by women increases their risk of having unprotected sex and of catching STIs, or sexually transmitted infections. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine researchers found that 66.9% of women who were...
by Valiant | Aug 12, 2016 | Alcohol abuse, medical studies
The researchers found that the normal protective mechanisms which help protect the lings are compromised by excessive alcohol consumption, and people who consume alcohol heavily exhale less nitric oxide than those who do not drink to excess in the same amounts. Since...
by Valiant | Aug 8, 2016 | Addiction treatment, mental illness and disorders, teen drug use
. The study involved a collaboration between researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the Federal University of Sao Paulo. The researchers determined that the respondents who had clinically significant scores when taking a...
by Valiant | Aug 5, 2016 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, heroin use
Remifentanil is one of the fentanyl analogs which has been approved for use in human patients, and this drug is marketed under the brand name Ultiva by Abbott and GlaxoSmithKline. This is a synthetic opioid drug which is short acting but very potent, and it is used...
by Valiant | Aug 1, 2016 | Drug abuse, heroin use
Carfentanil, sometimes called carfentanyl or by the brand name Wildnil, is a drug that is the synthetic version of fentanyl and it is an extremely powerful opioid. This specific fentanyl analog is not approved in the USA for use in humans but it is allowed in small...
