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 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...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | May 22, 2019 | Chapters Blog
Twenty years after the Columbine school shootings, the tragedy has taken another life. Austin Eubanks, 37, died of an opioid overdose last week. Eubanks was in recovery from injuries suffered in the shootings, the trauma of seeing his best friend killed, and opioid...
