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If you have a bad experience after taking kratom, can medical professionals help?
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When someone presents to an emergency department after having taken an unknown drug, screening is typically undertaken. Yet for kratom, which last year accounted for over a thousand fold increase in ED visits, no screen is available. Substance use disorder …
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Consuming kratom products may result in an ED visit, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Kratom is a drug that has been unregulated and sold for decades in smoke shops and elsewhere, now associated with over a thousand fold increase in emergency department visits. Why? Substance use disorder expert Eric Strain at Johns Hopkins explains. …
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Kratom is accounting for a dramatic rise in ED visits, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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You may have noticed among the offerings at gas stations and convenience stores something called kratom. This is a plant based drug with the potential for undesired side effects that is unregulated in the United States. Now over a thousand …
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Increasing rates of obesity and severe obesity may presage increased rates of heart failure, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Is there another benefit besides weight loss of GLP-1s in people with severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Can GLP-1 agonists help in heart failure and severe obesity? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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There’s a relationship between severe obesity and one type of heart failure, and it looks like it’s mediated by adding more phosphate groups, a process known as phosphorylation, to proteins in heart muscle cells, specifically to units within the muscle …
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