Category: Alcohol And Drug Abuse
PodMed – Week of December 21, 2015
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This week’s topics include a new treatment for one form of leukemia, opioid prescription guidelines, dangers of common medications in teenagers with regard to fetal risk, and electrical fields for a type brain tumor. Program notes: 0:32 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia …
November 20, 2015 – Heroin Use
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Anchor lead: At least part of the increase in deaths among middle-aged Caucasians is the result of heroin use, Elizabeth Tracey reports Heroin use, sometimes along with inappropriate use of prescription opiate medications, is one factor behind the recently reported …
November 19, 2015 – Early Death
PodMed – Week of November 9, 2015
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This week’s topics include safety of kidney donation, off-label use of prescription drugs, death in middle age, and spending and malpractice. Program notes: 0:34 Death in middle aged people 1:35 In contrast to everywhere else in the world 2:35 Opiates? …
November 6, 2015 – Limiting Use
November 5, 2015 – Marijuana Problems
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Anchor lead: What is happening in the wake of marijuana legalization? Elizabeth Tracey reports More and more people are trying marijuana, new federal data indicate, with another study demonstrating that there are also more people having problems with its use. …