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(HealthDay)—United States residents across the nation will have an opportunity to safely and anonymously unload expired, unwanted prescription medications on Saturday, April 27, during the sixth annual National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-saturday-sixth-annual-rx-drug.html Medications Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:50:01 EST news286222034 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Friday to place tougher restrictions on prescription painkillers containing hydrocodone, potentially moving medications such as Vicodin into the same class as narcotics such as Oxycontin and Percocet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-votes-tougher-curbs.html Medications Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:50:01 EST news278401640 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel met Thursday and Friday to discuss the fate of certain painkillers that contain the opioid known as hydrocodone, concluding in a vote in favor of moving hydrocodone combination products into the more restrictive Schedule II category of controlled substances. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-votes-tougher-restrictions.html Medications Sat, 26 Jan 2013 06:20:01 EST news278401574 (HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the fate of certain painkillers that contain an opioid known as hydrocodone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-panel-tougher-restrictions-prescription.html Medications Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:20:01 EST news278262973 A U.S. appeals court Tuesday rejected a petition to reclassify marijuana from its current federal status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-court-marijuana-reclassified.html Medications Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:16:52 EST news278075794 (AP)—Moshe Rute survived the Holocaust by hiding in a barn full of chickens. He nearly lost the use of his hands after a stroke two years ago. He became debilitated by recurring nightmares of his childhood following his wife's death last year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-israel-medical-marijuana-industry.html Medications Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:10:01 EST news271087170 Sam Houston State University is developing a laboratory test to detect the use of bath salts, a new designer drug that was added to the list of illegal substances by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-sam-houston-state-lab-salts.html Medications Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:23:57 EST news270383025 (AP)—A federal appeals court in Washington is considering whether marijuana should be reclassified from its current status as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-medical-marijuana-advocates-drug-reclassified.html Medications Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:25:48 EST news269612727 The use of the synthetic stimulants collectively known as "bath salts" have gained popularity among recreational drug users over the last five years, largely because they were readily available and unrestricted via the Internet and at convenience stores, and were virtually unregulated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-synthetic-salts-brain-cocaine.html Addiction Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:22:28 EST news262279276 (HealthDay) -- A new U.S. government analysis shows that more than 70 percent of people who first misuse prescription medications get those pills from their friends or relatives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-misuse-prescription-pills-friends-family.html Medications Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:20:01 EST news254593884 (AP) -- Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-painkiller-sales-soar-fuel-addiction.html Medications Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:06:41 EST news252817592 The number of oxycodone pills sold by Florida doctors dropped dramatically in 2011, following a series of high-profile arrests and a legislative crackdown on the storefront "pill mills" that made South Florida the hub of a nationwide black market in prescription painkillers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-sales-oxycodone-doctors-fall-florida.html Medications Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:20:01 EST news247399795 A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-pot-based-prescription-drug-fda.html Medications Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:05:13 EST news246513892 Following fatal shootings in two New York pharmacy robberies, a U.S. senator is warning that a new batch of "super painkillers" now under review could force repeats of recent violent robberies that left six people dead. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-senator-fda-danger-painkillers.html Medications Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:29:01 EST news245240928 Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-powerful-painkiller-abuse-experts.html Medications Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:16:40 EST news244142182 There are several "gifts" we start receiving after age 50. Unfortunately, one of them could be chronic pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-chronic-pain-doctor.html Health Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:20:01 EST news237818961 Marijuana has been approved by many states and the nation's capital to treat a range of illnesses, but the federal government has ruled that it has no accepted medical use and should remain classified as a dangerous drug like heroin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-federal-marijuana-medical.html Health Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:59:25 EST news229751948