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(Medical Xpress)—Research from the University of Adelaide suggests that mothers who eat junk food while pregnant have already programmed their babies to be addicted to a high fat, high sugar diet by the time they are weaned. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-maternal-diet-junk-food-addiction.html Health Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:50:03 EST news286521850 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Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news278872355 (HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a draft guidance document to assist the pharmaceutical industry in developing new formulations of opioid drugs with abuse-deterrent properties. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fda-guidance-issued-abuse-deterrent-opioids.html Medications Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:30:01 EST news277026886 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 A change in the formula of the frequently abused prescription painkiller OxyContin has many abusers switching to a drug that is potentially more dangerous, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-oxycontin-formula-abusers-heroin.html Medications Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:00:11 EST news261242628 A University of Colorado Boulder-led research team has discovered that two protein receptors in the central nervous system team up to respond to morphine and cause unwanted neuroinflammation, a finding with implications for improving the efficacy of the widely used painkiller while decreasing its abuse potential. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-morphine-side-effects.html Medical research Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:00:12 EST news252585704 Opioid drugs used to relieve pain in postoperative and chronic cancer patients may stimulate the growth and spread of tumors, according to two studies and a commentary in the 2012 annual Journal Symposium issue of Anesthesiology, the academic journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-evidence-mounts-link-opioids-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:00:01 EST news251481737 There is better evidence for the effectiveness of drug-based approaches for relieving labour pains than non-drug approaches. These are the findings of an all-encompassing publishing in The Cochrane Library, which draws together results from a number of previous reviews on the subject. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-pain-relief-poor-evidence-non-drug.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:00:03 EST news250876288 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is warning patients about a potential mix-up between powerful prescription pain drugs and common over-the-counter medications like Excedrin and Gas-X made at a Novartis manufacturing plant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-fda-pill-mix-up-endo-painkillers.html Medications Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:16:19 EST news245330170 In Britain, the popular U.S. painkiller OxyContin is considered similar to morphine and used sparingly. Vicodin isn't even licensed. And at most shops, remedies like ibuprofen are sold only in 16-pill packs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-painkillers-british.html Medications Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:58:31 EST news240166683 In the first worldwide study of its kind, scientists from Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found evidence that heavy methamphetamine users might have a higher risk of developing schizophrenia. This finding was based on a large study comparing the risk among methamphetamine users not only to a group that did not use drugs, but also to heavy users of other drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-schizophrenia-heavy-methamphetamine-users.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:59:10 EST news239947119 A new study by researchers at Drexel University's School of Public Health suggests that abuse of prescription painkillers may be an important gateway to the use of injected drugs such as heroin, among people with a history of using both types of drugs. The study, published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, explores factors surrounding young injection drug users' initiation into the misuse of opioid drugs. Common factors identified in this group included a family history of drug misuse and receiving prescriptions for opioid drugs in the past. The results support a need for efforts to prevent misuse of prescription drugs, particularly during adolescence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-drexel-misuse-pain-medication-pathway.html Medications Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:33:59 EST news230553223 The Obama administration turned a bright spotlight on prescription painkiller abuse in April when the Office of National Drug Control Policy released a national action plan and a statement from Vice President Joe Biden. With a cover article in the July edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA), dentists focus that spotlight on themselves both as major sources of opioid drugs and as professionals with largely untapped power to recognize and reduce abuse. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-dentists-role-painkiller-abuse.html Medications Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:33:02 EST news228735150