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A man in his 70s with weakness and syncope
DiscussionBrugada Type 1 ECG changes are associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) and the occurrence of ventricular dysrhythmias. Patients that develop a Type 1 pattern without any precipitating or provoking factors have a risk of SCD of 0.5-0.8% per year. In patients that only have this pattern induced by a sodium channel blocking agent have a lower rate of SCD (0 - 0.35% per year)[1]. Drugs that have been associated with Brugada ECG patterns include tricyclic antidepressants, anesthetics, cocaine, methadone, antihistamines, electrolyte derangements, and even tramadol. [2]. Our patient had a Brugada Type ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
A tale of two epidemics: When COVID-19 and opioid addiction collide
I am a primary care doctor who has recovered from — and who treats — opiate addiction. I work in an inner-city primary care clinic in Chelsea, Massachusetts, which currently has the highest rate of COVID-19 in the state, due, in part, to poverty. These two experiences offer me a clear view of how these two epidemics — COVID-19 and opioid addiction — can impact and worsen each other. Two great epidemics of our generation are intersecting in ways that are additively deadly, and which highlight the urgent ways we must respond to some of the underlying fault lines in our society that are worsening both crises.
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Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Peter Grinspoon, MD Tags: Addiction Cold and Flu Health care disparities Infectious diseases Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Signs of Opioid Withdrawal
Opioid withdrawal is one of the more uncomfortable parts of treatment, but it is one of the most important. There are many signs of opioid withdrawal, the length and severity of which can vary from person to person. However, each detox experience almost always includes strong cravings. Symptoms can be mild, such as sweating and yawning, while others can become more serious, like severe anxiety and depression.
Opioid withdrawal can look like a scary experience; one that could deter people from getting the help they need. The good news is that it doesn’t need to be fought alone, and there are resources available to make i...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 6, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Recovery Detox Resources for Alcohol and Drugs/Opiates drug detox medical detox medicated-assisted detox opioid opioids prescription drug detox withdrawal withdrawal symptoms Source Type: blogs
The Human Cost of Overregulating Opioids
Jeffrey Miron andErin PartinMany people blame excessive painkiller prescriptions for the rise in opioid overdose deaths over the past two decades; and the government has responded with strict limits on how physicians prescribe opioids. Many pain patients lost access to medications with little warning and no alternative other than illicit opioids. However, arecent Policy Analysis finds that the opioid epidemic has resulted from too many restrictions on prescribing, not too few.A reader who read the PA reached out to us with his story:Your article is spot on. My adult son was prescribed several opioids at a pain clinic for d...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 22, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Erin Partin Source Type: blogs
Toward a Healthy Relationship with Opioids
In the June 14thWall Street Journal, Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Travis Rieder, in an excellent essay, shared with readers his battle with pain resulting from a devastating accident, the effectiveness of opioids in controlling the pain, and the hell he went through when he was too rapidly tapered off of the opioids to which he had become physically dependent. Like most patients requiring long term pain management with opioids, he developed a physical dependence, which is often mistakenly equated with addiction by policymakers and many in the media. The aggressive schedule launched me into withdrawal, and I l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Can I Detox From Methadone?
What is Detox from Methadone Like?
Methadone is a long-acting opioid medication. It was originally designed to help people in treatment struggling with addiction to opioids, such as heroin. It is used to slowly wean people off of heroin and opioids so that they do not experience sudden and unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. However, methadone in and of itself has addictive properties as well, as it is a Schedule II controlled substance. This means it has a high potential for abuse and can produce physiological dependence in users.
Many people who were once addicted to heroin may become addicted to methadone for these reasons....
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 1, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction to Pharmaceuticals Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Detox Resources for Alcohol and Drugs/Opiates drug detox medical detox medicated-assisted detox methadone opiate abuse opiate addiction Source Type: blogs
Is Suboxone Potent?
We get about 5000 readers of SuboxForum per day who ask question, provide answers, or share their experiences with buprenorphine medications. If you’re a patient on buprenorphine, consider joining us. It is free, and you’ll find help for starting buprenorphine, tapering off the medication, and everything in between. Or if you’re a buprenorphine prescriber consider joining to see what patients are doing and thinking, and to help answer their questions!
Yesterday someone wrote about the high potency of buprenorphine. He also wrote that it is hard to get off buprenorphine medications. I ended up writing mo...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - April 26, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: admin Tags: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Detoxification
“Detoxification” or “detox” is a word that is put to many (related) uses. When used in a psychiatric sense its use refers to “the process of withdrawing a person from an addictive substance in a safe and effective manner” (Cambell’s Psychiatric Dictionary). Detoxification can also refer to the treatment of poisoning.
When referring to the treatment of addictive substances detox is used variously to mean the treatment of a withdrawal syndrome, the experiencing of a withdrawal syndrome or the treatment of an acute drug overdose.
Talk of “detoxing” is also beloved of alternative practitioners, the idea b...
- April 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Frontier Psychiatrist Tags: Dictionary d Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update — 04-01-2013
This case report is entirely bizarre. Patient gets awarded more than $800,000 after visit to doctor resulted in incorrect diagnosis of cancer when the patient really had pneumonia and caused patient to have amputation of her foot. A trial was held on the case four years ago with a verdict in favor of the doctor, but the judge declared a mistrial because Washington State jurors were referring to the plaintiff’s Japanese attorney as “Mr. Miyagi” and were making other racist comments against him.
Then, the article notes that the doctor had been disciplined by state regulators for making “erroneous diagnoses” and for...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - April 1, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update 01-14-2013
Interesting facts about the human body. Did you know that your stomach acid can melt zinc? Your femur is 4 times stronger than concrete? In your life you make enough saliva to fill two swimming pools? More strange facts at the link.
If your stomach acid can’t dissolve it, then try some Coca-Cola. Study shows that Coke is quite effective in dissolving physobezoars (balls of indigestible plant material) in the stomach.
Having sex … in a hospital bed … with other people in the room … after just delivering a baby? Look for pictures on the internet – another patient’s family took the pictures and visitors ar...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - January 14, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
