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In addition to Subsys, Insys Therapeutics marketed Syndros, a synthetic THC product, and was working toward approval of other cannabis derivatives. [3] [5] Despite delta-9 THC being classified as a Schedule I substance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Syndros was classified as a Schedule II substance used in adults to treat loss of appetite in people with AIDS who have lost weight ...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals recently reported positive results for a non-opioid painkiller, one of several medications the Boston-based drugmaker has been developing for various forms of pain.
A temporary class drug is a relatively new status for controlled drugs, which has been adopted in some jurisdictions, notably New Zealand and the United Kingdom, to attempt to bring newly synthesized designer drugs under legal control. The controlled drug legislation in these jurisdictions requires drug scheduling decisions to follow an ...
Synthetic Cannabinoids are illegal in New Zealand, it is classified as a Class A controlled drug. [199] The New Zealand Parliament passed a law in July 2013 banning the sale of legal highs in dairies and supermarkets, but allowing some "low risk" drugs to continue to be sold through speciality licensed shops. [200]
Clinics that dispensed painkillers proliferated with only the loosest of safeguards, until a recent coordinated federal-state crackdown crushed many of the so-called “pill mills.” As the opioid pain meds became scarce, a cheaper opioid began to take over the market — heroin. Frieden said three quarters of heroin users started with pills.
Here’s where science currently stands on the use of marijuana for pain, sleep, anxiety, muscle spasms and other ailments — the results may surprise you. How marijuana impacts pain, sleep ...
Low to moderate doses of CBD might reduce some of the paranoia, anxiety, [18] and reduction of hippocampal volumes that the current high potency THC marijuana (in the last decades, THC content increased and CBD content decreased) can cause, if the CBD substitutes a part of the THC dose.
A jury in federal court in Covington acquitted Dr. Jay M. Sadrinia Thursday on three charges of illegally prescribing opioid painkillers to a patient, but convicted him on one count of illegally ...