http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Officials in Estonia raised the alarm Wednesday after a report into drug use in Europe found that the small Baltic nation had the highest incidence of deaths from drug overdoses in the EU. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-estonia-tops-eu-drug-overdose.html Medications Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:16:12 EST news279972938 Training bystanders to recognize and respond to drug overdoses can significantly reduce the number of fatalities, finds a study published in BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-bystanders-drug-overdoses-deaths.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news278872355 (Medical Xpress)—Giving heroin users kits with the overdose antidote naloxone is a cost-effective way to prevent overdose deaths and save lives, according to a study released this week in The Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-naloxone-kits-cost-effective-overdose-deaths.html Medications Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:40:02 EST news276340968 (Medical Xpress)—Opioid over­dose now kills more people than both AIDS and homi­cides in America and has sur­passed auto­mo­bile acci­dents as the leading cause of acci­dental death in many states. According to the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, the bur­geoning epi­demic accounts for approx­i­mately 16,000 deaths per year in the U.S. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-opioid-overdose-impossible.html Medications Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:54:23 EST news272709620 In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-scientists-block-heroin-morphine-addiction.html Neuroscience Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:00:02 EST news264160153 There is "substantial variation" in the stocks of essential antidotes used to treat various types of life threatening poisoning incidents in UK acute hospitals, finds research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-substantial-variation-stocks-essential-antidotes.html Other Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:30:02 EST news263660781 Mental distractions make pain easier to take, and those pain-relieving effects aren't just in your head, according to a report published online on May 17 in Current Biology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pain-relief-distraction-.html Medical research Thu, 17 May 2012 12:00:07 EST news256474692 (AP) -- Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-drug-overdose-antidote-addicts.html Addiction Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:45:03 EST news254670270 Individuals addicted to prescription painkillers are more likely to succeed in treatment with the aid of the medication buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone), report McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers in today's online edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-suboxone-effective-painkiller-addiction.html Medications Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:06:37 EST news239907981 In what is believed to be the first study of its kind to demonstrate an association between the antidepressant escitalopram and improved general pain, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), have found that opioid-dependent patients treated with escitalopram experienced meaningful reductions in pain severity and pain interference during the first three months of therapy. These findings appear in the journal Pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-anti-depressants-pain-opioid-dependent-patients.html Medical research Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:00:08 EST news239536254