by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | Jul 17, 2019 | Chapters Blog
Exposure to the sun can increase the risk of skin cancer. Alcohol consumption also can increase the risk of cancer. What happens when you combine the two? A greater risk of skin cancer than doing one or the other. Maybe. Scientists are often accused of being buzzkills...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | Jul 10, 2019 | Chapters Blog
Liberal San Francisco has voted to ban the sale of e-cigarettes next year until and unless the US Food and Drug Administration considers them safe. If you are surprised that they were not already evaluated by the FDA, you’re not alone. According to some sources, the...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | Jul 3, 2019 | Chapters Blog
One of the problems with curbing the opioid epidemic is the problem of pain. Opioids are addictive, and some people take them for illicit reasons of pleasure rather than medically necessary reasons, but opioids can help manage pain. If there were no legitimate uses...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | Jun 5, 2019 | Chapters Blog
It is hard to put the genie back in the bottle. So too, with the opioid epidemic. Opioids used to be mostly prescribed for short-term acute pain or cancer patients. Then the big pharmaceutical companies lobbied hard for their newer, supposedly “safer” opioids to be...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | May 29, 2019 | Chapters Blog
We need more options for drug addiction treatment and less expensive options. So the Food and Drug Administration should not be buying into large pharmaceutical companies’ claims that restrict the release of new treatments or drive up the price by awarding them...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | May 22, 2019 | Chapters Blog
Fentanyl and oxycodone are both opioid medications. Some of the other opioids include codeine, morphine, heroin, and others as well. The natural opioids are derivatives from a poppy plant. The synthetic opioids are made to have the same sort of effects as the...