But how has this become a weekly glycolic peel, a thing that I don’t want or believe in? Distraction, procrastination, lack of a Xanax prescription — sure. All of these personal things. But this stuff has all found its outlet in one particular way, and that...
Schedule IV drugs are less addictive than those in Schedule III, and include benzodiazepines, such as Xanax, Ativan, or Valium. Refills for Schedule II drugs are prohibited. You need a new prescription. For Schedules III and IV, federal law allows five refills maximum. If you lo...
Ativan, and Xanax, all highly addictive anti-anxietyprescription medicines, along with a similar amount of Percocet and Vicodin, highly addictive opioid pain killers. The overdose had almost killed her, and were it not for a stay in the Intensive...
We don’t like to think about the time our parents will no longer be with us and we will need to handle their affairs. However, as people continue to live longer the need to first help an aging parent is a more likely scenario. Here is the hard part and one which most of us put ...
Often patients we see have tried getting off their medications unsuccessfully. Some have been told: “This is proof that you need the medication.” Well, keep this in mind… Nobody’s brain is deficient in Prozac or Xanax (though your brain gets used to it). Unless you have som...
Youcanexpectthatifyouhaveaurinetestthatispositiveforanychemicals,especiallyany benzodiazepine(suchasAtivan,Xanax,Valium,oranyother‘downers’)oralcohol,thatyoucanbe discontinuedfrombuprenorphinetreatment. Youcanexpectthatifyoubecomepregnant,youwouldneedtohaveyourbuprenorphinediscontinued andyouwouldneedtoenrollintheloca...
“9. I have a commercial sample I need to ship to Mexico. What do I need to do? Commercial Samples of Negligible Value: Commercial samples of negligible value can be permanently imported into Mexico duty-free.However,such goods must be truly valueless — meaning cut, marked, tor...
Experts say that most woman are sharing prescription drugs like Ritalin to a tired friend or Xanax to a stressed roommate and this would be a bad idea. According to Terry Horton, addiction specialist, the human bodies are complicated and doctors woul...
I must have gotten a little bit visually upset because she gave me the other half of the Valium. Chris showed up and they gave me the PRK consent paperwork to sign. (I need to pause here to say, I know now this is illegal. A patient cannot consent to surgery while they are drugged...
The side-effects, after all, are observable, while the effect is mostly not; so the side-effects are how you know the drug is doing anything at all. This implies that, for the population who only need a placebo, a drug that’s nothing butpure side-effectswill have a stronger therapeuti...