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Sildenafil is used by men with erectile dysfunction, with a recent study examining medical records of men who used it finding they also developed Alzheimer’s disease less often. This is called an observational study, and it only can find an …

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Examining the medical records of more than 265,000 men has revealed that those who took the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil experienced a reduced rate of Alzheimer’s disease in comparison to those who did not. Lolita Nidadavolu, a geriatrics expert at …

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Publishing the results of your work is an important way to share what you’ve learned with other nurses and – bigger picture – advance the science of nursing. Finding time to actually write, however, can be challenging.  That is where …

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The Modernizing Opioid Treatment and Access Act, or MOTAA, was presented to Congress in March 2023, as a means to expand access to medicines used in opioid use disorder treatment. Clearly such legislation is needed in light of the 100,000 …

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Decriminalizing drugs doesn’t seem to have stemmed the tide of substance use in Oregon, and now the state is backpedaling. Yet over 100,000 drug overdose deaths in 2022, recently reported by the CDC, must be addressed somehow. Substance use disorder …

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Over 100,000 people died in 2022 because of drug overdoses, with the majority of them using illegal opioids in ways other than injection, the latest CDC data shows. Substance use disorder expert Michael Fingerhood at Johns Hopkins says while interdiction …

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A myth often heard on the street is that using opioid drugs like heroin or fentanyl by inhaling them, snorting them or ingesting them is less likely to result in overdose than injection. This myth may be behind new CDC …

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