Posts Tagged ‘drugs’

Heroin Detox Drugs in the News

Special patrol offers help as Denver weighs homeless camping ban
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Randy Sorrell, a 50-year-old recovering heroin addict, has been on the streets since September after detox and failing to find a job. He chooses to live in a camp near the South Platte River instead of at a shelter. "This law has got us wondering what …
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Small Teen Turns Eighteen
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The documentary also follows the teenager on a trip to America as her father begins a methadone detox programme. Having learned that he had slipped back into taking heroin while filming the series Small Teen, Bigger World, Jazz vowed to cease contact …
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Whole Recovery
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Analysis of drugs of forensic interest with capillary zone electrophoresis/time-of-flight mass spectrometry based on the use of non-volatile buffers.
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Electrophoresis. 2012 Feb; 33(4): 599-606
Gottardo R, Mikšík I, Aturki Z, Sorio D, Seri C, Fanali S, Tagliaro F

he present work is aimed at investigating the influence of the background electrolyte composition and concentration on the separation efficiency and resolution and mass spectrometric detection of illicit drugs in a capillary zone electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (CZE-ESI-TOF MS) system. The effect of phosphate, borate and Tris buffers on the separation and mass spectrometry response of a mixture of 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, methadone, cocaine, morphine, codeine and 6-monoacetylmorphine was studied, in comparison with a reference ammonium formate separation buffer. Inorganic non-volatile borate and Tris buffers proved hardly suitable for capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) analysis, but quite unexpectedly ammonium phosphate buffers showed good separation and ionization performances for all the analytes tested. Applications of this method to real samples of hair from drug addicts are also provided.
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Comparison of urine and hair testing for drugs of abuse in the control of abstinence in driver’s license re-granting.
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Drug Test Anal. 2012 Mar 22;
Dufaux B, Agius R, Nadulski T, Kahl HG

The purpose of the study was to compare the detection rate of illicit drugs in urine and hair specimens. The samples were taken from subjects trying to regain their revoked driver’s license after a drug- or alcohol-related traffic offence. In 2010, we screened 14 000 urine and 3900 hair samples for amphetamines, methamphetamines, cannabinoids, cocaine, opiates, methadone, and benzodiazepines as well as for ethylglucuronide. We used the low threshold values of the new German guidelines for Medical Psychological Assessment (MPA). Positive screening tests were confirmed with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) or liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The results show that positivity rates for methamphetamines, MDMA, cocaine, and monoacetylmorphine were 1.7-, 5.7-, 3.8- and 9.3-fold higher in hair than in urine. In contrast, the detection rate for benzodiazepines was higher in urine than in hair (oxazepam, 0.21% versus 0%, nordiazepam 0.10% versus 0.03%). The positivity rate in hair for ethylglucuronide was 6-fold (12.7%) that for urine testing (2.1%). The study reveals that in the control of abstinence in the context of driving license re-granting there are in part large differences of positivity rates for some drugs or metabolites between hair and urine samples. These differences should be kept in mind by physicians and psychologists in traffic medicine who are ordering the drug testing. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Heroin – The Next Generation / Documentary Educational Video

Heroin Documentary Video from the public domain. Heroin: The Next Generation. Viewers will learn about the different types of heroin being peddled on the streets of America, how heroin affects the users and hear first person accounts about heroin use from former users. Find out how the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office broke a major heroin trafficking ring that was selling the drug to young people in the affluent suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona. What goes around comes around — and Heroin is back! But the face of yesterday’s junkie is not the face of the junkie of today. More young people than ever before are shooting it, snorting it — even smoking it. And they’re getting more bang for their buck when buying their heroin on the streets today. One reason: The purity of this drug is the highest at the street level than it’s ever been — that means users don’t have to use needles to inject the drug into their veins. The new ability to snort or smoke heroin is enticing more young people than ever before to give it a try. Back in the 60s and 70s, heroin users primarily injected the drug into their bloodstream. The next generation of heroin users do not have to use needles to get high on heroin. Smoking it or snorting it is more appealing to younger and first-time users by eliminating the fear of needles and syringe-associated diseases such as HIV, AIDS and hepatitis — not to mention the stigma associated with the stereotypical “junkie” who “shoots up” the drug. Another reason …

Heroin Detox Symptoms in the News

Ex-addicts help others hooked on illegal drugs
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"I was in Derriford Hospital three times on one day for separate heroin overdoses. "One day I was lying on my dad's sofa and caught my reflection – I looked like a pale corpse. I had a moment of clarity." He went through a three-week detox at a city …
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Addict lost his battle with heroin
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… are commonly used in cooking up heroin ready for injection. The coroner was told by Mr Thomas's social worker and community nurse that he had managed to stay off drugs for a period of time, including a two-week spell in a rehab and detox clinic.
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Demerol For Pain in the News

Massena hospital nurse charged with stealing drugs
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Dilaudin, according to the National Institute of Health, is a hydromorphone used to treat moderate to severe pain. She said she went into the bathroom and injected the Dilaudid and then went back into the pharmacy and took 125 milligrams of Demerol in …
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An ER Doctor's Perspective: Strategies for Migraine Relief
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Opiates (morphine, Dilaudid, Demerol, Fentanyl, Vicodin, Perocet etc.) are terrible treatments for migraines. If a doctor is not giving you opiates for your migraine—it is because she or he cares about you! In the past, the philosophy in the ER was to …
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The Fastest Growing Drug Problem in America: Prescription Painkillers
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