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Who Killed Heath Ledger? The Real Truth Behind the Drugs

February 2, 2009

Ann Marosy asked: The City of New York’s Medical Examiner Report concluded that Heath Ledger’s cause of death was “the result of acute intoxication by the combine effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine”. Recent investigations and medical warnings have concentrated on the lethal combination of prescription drugs such as narcotic analgesics and

Vicodin is generally prescribed by physicians as a pain reliever. When taken as prescribed, Vicodin can promote relaxation and calm to the patient, thus enabling him to fully recover from his condition or injury. Like most drugs, Vicodin can lead to some side effects which include drowsiness, weak breathing, weakness, unusual fatigue, vomiting, decreased appetite, and constipation. It also can cause extreme relaxation and a feeling of euphoria, making it one of the commonly abused prescription drugs.

Vicodin as an Addictive Drug

Vicodin is both physically and psychologically addictive. Continued use for several weeks can already cause mild addiction, much more so if this addiction is pursued to greater amounts. Vicodin addiction is much like other powerful addictions: there is a powerful craving to take the drug and might even supersede the need for food and water. Individuals who get addicted to Vicodin will find themselves slowly craving more amounts to achieve the desired effect. You end up taking the drug at increasing doses regularly despite family, legal or health problems. The addiction can be overwhelming and undeniable, it take over your life, and you will experience moments when you still want to take it even if you know it is no longer inappropriate.

Vicodin addiction can likely lead to overdose, and overdose effects of this drug can be fatal. Taking a large single dose usually leads to an overdose, the amount of which depends on the patient’s tolerance to the drug. Overdose symptoms range from slow breathing, dizziness, vomiting, weakness, and confusion to loss of consciousness, extreme tiredness and severe respiratory depression and coma. It can even lead to death. Another danger of Vicodin abuse is that it also contains Acetaminophen, the long term abuse of which can cause permanent liver damage or even failure.

Withdrawal Symptoms

The hydrocodone component of Vicodin makes it highly addictive. Hydrocodone is an opioid so Vicodin addiction symptoms can be quite similar to heroin abuse. In the same way, deciding to stop the addiction can lead to difficult withdrawal symptoms such as physical bone and muscle pain, restlessness, insomnia, vomiting, involuntary leg movements, diarrhea, loss of appetite, irritability, nausea, sweating, chills and cold flashes. These withdrawal symptoms depend on the degree of addiction and may grow stronger for the first 24 to 48 hours. But it usually declines gradually in the next weeks, and these symptoms are bearable and not fatal.

Vicodin addiction can change your life in the worst way, but it doesn’t mean that there is no hope left. But like all addictions, Vicodin drug addiction is difficult to get over alone. You would need treatment, counseling and a support group to help you. You can visit http://www.mypainkilleraddictions.com to know about available treatment options that is just right for you.

My name is Maryann and I am a recovering opiate addict from pain killers. I now enjoy sharing my story of conquering that horrible disease. I pride myself on helping other people get through the hard, gripping times of an opiate and pain killer addiction. You can visit my site Pain Killer Addiction for more information on opiate and pain killer addiction, and how to conquer the disease.

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How early can pharmacies refill prescriptions?

January 26, 2009

ChestRockwell asked: I am in a situation where there is a chance I might be going away next week (monday-tuesday). If I was just going on vacation, I’d transfer my script to one near where I’ll be, problem is I’m gonna be out camping, and thus not near any stores.I had a month supply

There is a cafe and coffee shop circuit in every city that serves as the office for many freelancers, entrepreneurs and off-site workers. You’ve seen them. They are typing away at their laptops with the focused precision of a brain surgeon. When they come up for air they often are ready for their third or fourth round of espresso or a little chat with their neighboring typist. Then, they are desperately searching for an outlet for their rapidly dying battery. What are these people doing? How can they work to the sounds of frothing cappuccinos and pumping music?
These are the people who fall in between. Cubicle city does not work for them. Nine to five makes them squirm. Yet holing away in their lonely home office is about as appealing as the four meeting workday. Excruciating.

When one is an unofficial member of the cafe circuit one sees many of the same people over and over again. Often, due to deadlines, time constraints or other variables, they tend to keep to themselves even though they desire to be around people. Collaborating is not often the focus.

Finding the perfect balance of atmosphere that they crave with the practical aspects like being able to place or take a phone call is tricky. There is a virtuoso’s set of criteria that must be in place for something productive to come out of this environment.

That internal struggle and overwhelming desire to be motivated if not inspired by one’s working environment and be round people has created a new business model that is being replicated all over the nation.

Coworking is its name. Coworking has an additional benefit that takes it to another level. Collaboration with other like minded people. Coworking is not only about the perfect space to work in but it is about the alchemy of combined entrepreneurial pursuits benefiting from open communication with each other. This is an aspect not easily achieved in a hit-or-miss atmosphere like a coffee shop.

There are three coworking spaces slated to open in Austin in 2008.

Launchpad Coworking and Cafe has a crew of dedicated and passionate people designing an environment that may suit a person desiringa well planned and professionally managed community. They are opening in September in downtown Austin.

Conjunctured is a coworking company that focuses on collaborating in a well thought out but slightly less formal space than Launchpad. They are located in Central East Austin in an older bungalow adapted for its use. It maintains an environment more similar to the quirkiness associated with working in a coffee shop. They opened on the first day of July.

Soma Vida strives to be a coworking space with wellness in mind. It is an integrated community that focuses on nurturing and support for each other. It is the only coworking space that offers on site childcare. The coworking space opened also on July 1st. It is located in Central East Austin. Their childcare and yoga facilities are set to open on July 15th.

Escapeso is a real estate company in Austin. Their site is focused on Austin Texas real estate and provides a search for Austin homes. Their blog is updated monthly and provides statistics on the Austin real estate market.

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is your teenager using prescription drugs behind your back? – Free press releases (press release)

January 25, 2009

is your teenager using prescription drugs behind your back?Free press releases (press release), UK - 8 hours agoOther drugs being abused are those readily available at drugstore counters, such as cough medicine. But while the numbers describing prescription drug abuse …

The Happiness Hypothesis

As a Third Ager, I have always believed that we all can be happy after midlife with the right mind set and knowledge. However, after reading The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt, being happy and having a meaningful life for everyone is a little more complicated that I thought.

Dr. Fred Horowitz, my colleague at happiness-after-midlife.com, recommended I read the book; it was one of his best reads of 2008 even though it is relatively unknown (there were only two reviews on Amazon the last time I looked). It turned out to be a fascinating read for me as well, eye-opening theories and insight based on solid scientific studies. But there is also helpful practical advice for being happy which is the pay-off for me.

I was so impressed with the Haidt’s book that I would like to share with you in a series of five articles what I discovered. What is particularly fascinating is his melding of Ancient and Eastern wisdom and modern Western science. It had an impact on my life and may affect you in positive ways too.

I will touch on such ideas as the divided self, affective style, cognitive therapy, the happiness set point, the adversity hypothesis, spirituality, the importance of love and social relationships and the meaning of life – just to name a few. Haidt does not suggest a quick fix solution to finding happiness (what Dr. Fred calls the “Chinese Food Syndrome”: you feel full for an hour, then you are hungry again). You have to work at it.

Our Mind is often in Conflict with Itself

At the beginning of the book, Haidt, a respected positive psychologist, describes two key notions: the divided self and changing your mind. The first concept provides a backdrop for understanding his arguments throughout the book. Hadit uses the metaphor of a rider on an elephant. In his view the mind is divided into parts that conflict. On the one hand, there is the elephant which is the gut brain or emotions and passions (the id in Freud’s sense). On the other hand, there is the rider or the head brain, the rational side (the ego).

In fact, he describes at length ancient thinking and the latest scientific research pointing to four distinctions: mind vs. body, left brain vs. right brain, reason vs. emotion, and controlled vs. automatic thinking. What does all this mean? Conscious thought or rational behaviour has far less influence on our lives and ways of acting than we think. These distinctions partly explain our weakness of will and our experience of being divided against our self. This is point one in making the pursuit of happiness so elusive.

“The whole universe is change and life itself is what you deem it.” Marcus Aurelius

The sage of self-help thinking, Dale Carnegie writing in 1944 said that the last eight words of the above quotation “can transform your life.” Haidt is more cautious about such an assertion. He does say that self improvement self development is possible. How? He suggests three specific, albeit challenging and controversial, ways of changing your mind, but more about that later. First let us explore briefly three more fascinating theories about how the mind works in unconscious ways and affects the way we think and act:

– Like-O-Meter
This is an unconscious, subtle like-dislike reaction to everything we are experiencing even if we are not aware of the experience. The psychological studies on “affective priming” Haidt describes are worth reading. Other studies he cites show that three of the major decisions in life – what we do with our lives, where we live, and whom we marry – can all be affected (even only slightly) by something as seemingly insignificant as the sound of a name.

– Negativity Bias
The elephant or the unconscious sees bad as stronger than good. For example, Haidt refers to the finding that in marital interactions, it takes at least five good or constructive actions to make up for the damage done by one critical act. Another example is fear of snakes. If the elephant fears them it doesn’t matter what you “think.” You will still be afraid.

– Affective Style
Affective style equals a person’s average or typical level of happiness – the so-called happiness set point. It is influenced by nature much more than we think. Surprisingly, research shows that happiness is one of the most highly heritable aspects of personality. According to several identical twin studies, 50 percent to 80 percent of all variance among people in their average levels of happiness can be explained by differences in their genes rather than in their life experiences. Now I know why I have never had a depression and recover quickly from negative experiences. According to Haidt I seemed to have won the “cortical lottery.”

What you can do

How can you influence or change your affective style if you were not as lucky as me in the cortical lottery? Haidt suggests three courses of action:

– Do Meditation

Meditation plays a large role in Buddhist thinking and according to Haidt it tames and calms the elephant. Done everyday for several months, meditation can help you reduce the frequency of fearful, negative, and debilitating thoughts. Dr. Fred has practised meditation for over 20 years and more recently “mindfulness.” Both practices have had a significant impact on his life. Dr. Fred would probably agree with Haidt’s assertion that meditation can improve your affective style.

– Learn to do Cognitive Therapy

People with a tendency to depression often tell themselves that “I’m no good,” “My world is bleak,” “My future is hopeless.” A depressed person’s mind is filled with these automatic thoughts – the inner voice that keeps replaying negative tapes. The psychiatrist Beck described the a feedback loop: distorted thinking causing negative feelings. He and others such as Dr. David M. Burns in Feeling Good suggest you can break the cycle by breaking the thoughts. If you can catch your thoughts, write them down, name the distortions, and then find alternative and more accurate ways of thinking, you the rider can learn to train the elephant. However, according to Haidt it may not be effective for everyone.

– Take Prozac

Haidt admits that this drug and other SSRIs are controversial as a quick fix (grim reminder of the happiness pill “soma” in Brave New World). Scientists still don’t know how it works but it does. It can relieve symptoms and sometimes can even change personality. Haidt argues that it is not over-prescribed; he uses effectively the analogy of giving someone contact lenses to see well. For Haidt it is a reasonable shortcut to proper functioning. Other experts such as Dr. Ben Lemer writing on mercola.com and Mark Kingwell, author of Better Living: In pursuit of happiness from Plato to Prozac, would strongly disagree. It is up for you to weigh the evidence, experiment and decide whether it is right for you.

In Part 2 of the series, I’ll explore the importance of reciprocity in connecting with others and the dangers of hypocrisy and self-righteousness in preventing us from being happy.

Dr. Frank Bonkowski is an educator, writer and author of bestselling educational textbooks. He is co-founder, with Dr. Fred Horowitz, of http://www.happiness-after-midlife.com, an educational website for Third Agers devoted to adult transition and reinvention. He can be reached at dr.frank@happiness-after-midlife.com.

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Drug Problems Reach to Minnesota – WEAU-TV 13

January 24, 2009

Drug Problems Reach to MinnesotaWEAU-TV 13, WI - 17 hours agoLocal law enforcement leaders say prescription drug abuse is a major problem in Wisconsin, but people right across the Mississippi River say Wisconsin isn’t …

Many other drugs can interact with the opioids and cause a variety of unpleasant symptoms; these can be fatal. Addiction to pain killers is a rapidly growing problem today, especially the abuse of opioid pain killers. If you think you’re addicted and want to get off pain killers or other drugs, it’s best to get detoxified as fast as you can and then go through rehabilitation; it’s important to have others around to lean on and learn from and offer support to you.

When you’re addicted physically to a drug, like pain killers or alcohol, etc., it’s because you’ve suppressed or shut down your body’s production of endorphins, which are natural opiate pain killers; when this happens you start craving the drug that you replaced your endorphins with whether it’s alcohol, any number of drugs or pain killers. Often people who are addicted to pain killers are plagued with various symptoms to different degrees; much of the time they don’t associate the symptoms with the drug. Physical dependence on a drug suggests that the sudden stopping of the drug may result in negative consequences.

Treatment options for pain killer addiction include: medications, such as methadone and levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol (LAMM), and behavioral counseling; usually, the patient is medically detoxified before any treatment approach begins. A person exhibits compulsive behavior to satisfy their craving for a pain killer or pain medication even when there are negative consequences associated with the taking of the pain killer or drug. More than ten percent of high school seniors have started taking Vicodin for reasons other than reducing pain.

Pain killer addiction will include: opiate dependency, opiate addiction, narcotic dependency, narcotic addiction, and pain killer dependency or painkiller dependency. Chronic pain affects one out of three adults; millions of people suffer from severe disabling pain. An opioid-dependent pain patient will have improved function with the use of the drug while an opioid-addicted patient will not have improvement.

If you’re addicted to pain killers or other drugs or think you might be, you can start working to increase your body’s endorphin production naturally; some of the ways are hugs, laughing, touching, massage, acupuncture, acupressure, walking and anything that makes you feel good that’s natural. More than 415,000 people have received treatment for pain killer abuse or addiction in the past year. There are a number of successful, effective treatment options to treat pain killer addiction to prescription opioids and to help manage the sometimes severe withdrawal symptoms that can accompany sudden discontinuance of pain killers or drugs.

The longer you wait to get into treatment the worse it will get; take action now. Taking the time to enter a treatment center to detox is of the utmost priority. You must make a change in your lifestyle in order to stop yourself from taking pain killers and or other drugs again.

You must leave the routine responsibilities of your life for a week or two or suffer the inevitable consequences and bad health effects of prolonged drug addiction. There are many, many pain killer addiction treatment facilities located throughout the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. Some insurance companies will pay for one or two weeks and some may pay for rehabilitation too.

Make a list and do things that make you feel good as long as it is natural. Experts say that only a small segment of patients with a serious medical need for using narcotic pain medications ever become addicted. It’s important to remember that when people first start taking pain killers for an acute or chronic pain condition, they never intend to become addicted.

For more information on pain killer addiction symptoms and pain killer treatments go to http://www.Pain-Killer-Addiction.info specializing in pain killer addiction with nurse’s tips, help, quiz, blog and resources including information on pain killer treatment centers and natural addiction treatment

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January 24, 2009

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Soma is a centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant, although it does not work to directly relax tense skeletal muscle. Instead, it relieves acute muscle spasm, through its sedative properties.

Generally, Soma is prescribed as just one part of a pain-management program, in addition to rest, physical therapy and other strategies for the relief of pain associated with acute musculoskeletal conditions. In patients who suffer from acute porphyria or who have an allergic reaction to carisoprodol- or meprobamate-related compounds, Soma may be contraindicated.

As with all medications, use of Soma carries some potential risks. Patients should first be aware of the sedative properties of Soma, an effect that may significantly impair the user’s ability to operate a motor vehicle or other machinery. Care should be taken in performing these tasks until the effect on the user is fully determined.

There is a potential for the forming of a dependence on Soma. For those with a history of substance abuse problems, Soma ought to be prescribed with extreme caution. Other side effects of the drug may include extreme weakness, dizziness, temporary vision loss, agitation, confusion and disorientation. Generally, symptoms subside within several hours, although the patient may require a short hospital stay to assist in managing the effects.

The degree of safety with which a pregnant or breastfeeding woman may use Soma is yet undetermined, and as a result the drug may not be suitable for use by women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or those who may become pregnant. Further, it has been shown that the concentration of Soma in users’ breast milk is in concentrations of between two and four times more than that of maternal plasma. Therefore, use by mothers who are breastfeeding may not be recommended.

In rare cases, patients have experienced seizures while using Soma, both those patients who have had previous seizure disorder and those with no such history. Further, because Soma is metabolized by the kidney and excreted by the kidneys, to help avoid excess accumulation in the body. Because of that, administration of Soma to patients experiencing diminished functioning of the liver or kidneys ought to be accompanied by a high degree of caution.

Other possible side effects of the drug include tachycardia, flushing of the face, vertigo, dizziness, syncope, insomnia, nausea, vomiting, and others.

An overdose of Soma can cause depression of the central nervous system, which can lead to coma in sever cases. Overdose can also result in shock, respiratory depression, seizures, and death in rare cases. Patients are advised to seek medical attention immediately if they experience any of the following: blurred vision, tachycardia, euphoria, respiratory depression, headache, hallucination, confusion, muscular incoordination, or rigidity of the muscles.

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