Anxiety and pain medication together can kill you, especially with a drink
By David Heitz Especially in light of the nation’s opioid epidemic, this shouldn’t be happening anymore: Opioid painkillers and anxiety medication being taken (and often even prescribed) together. We already know it’s a volatile mix proven to lead to easy overdose, especially when combined with alcohol. Both drugs are highly addictive individually – opioids […]
Fentanyl: Growing Use and Abuse
Written by Lindsey Carnick Fentanyl is an opioid analgesic drug. Opioid analgesics are incredibly potent substances that act on the central nervous system to drastically reduce the user’s perception of pain, in addition to creating a feeling of sedation and sometimes euphoria. Morphine, the medical precursor to fentanyl, and its deadly street drug counterpart heroin, […]
