San Diego-Based Company Zogenix Responds to Zohydro Criticism

San Diego-Based Company Zogenix Responds to Zohydro Criticism
A San Diego-based company has set up a board of experts to guard against abuse of its powerful new painkiller that public health authorities fear could worsen heroin and prescription drug abuse. Zogenix, which makes Zohydro, said the drug is no more potent …
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Steel Magnolia Singer’s Battle with Drug Abuse
17, 2011, Joshua Scott Jones was alone in the presidential suite at a San Diego Hyatt, nursing a beer … It was a turning point for Jones, for whom substance abuse had long been a daily routine. “On any given weekend, it was pills, booze …
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Legal Highs?
You can smoke them, or swallow them. Toxicologist Richard Clark says the new ways to abuse drugs are all legal. “Some people call these legal highs,” Richard Clark, MD, Director of Toxicology, UC San Diego Health System, told Ivanhoe. “Bath salts …
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Painkillers Might Not Be Right Prescription For Veterans
Jack Lyon, Co-Founder, Veterans Village of San Diego. If you use the universal 10-point pain scale to measure concern about the thousands of San Diego County veterans facing addiction to prescribed painkillers, you reach about a seven. That's the …
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Heroin use increasing in California, experts say
April 08, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ — Both in California and throughout the nation, heroin use has been on the rise recently, marked by higher overdose rates and greater quantities of the drug seized by law enforcement agencies. In Southern California …
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