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Although opioids have a reputation for being instantly addictive, studies find that the average patient does not enjoy the feeling of being on the drug; even among recreational users, most who try it don't get hooked. Patients who are prone to addiction are typically those who have histories of emotional trauma, mental illness or prior substance misuse. (See how to prevent illness...
...combat in Iraq between 2004 and 2006. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January, the study found that soldiers who were given morphine during resuscitation and treatment for physical trauma were half as likely to develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as those who did not get the drug. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
Doctors are often afraid to dispense high doses, sometimes at the expense of patients' daily functioning. "Those are the kinds of doses that get doctors arrested," says Siobhan Reynolds, founder of patient-advocacy group the Pain Relief Network. But as researchers figure out the best way to use their most powerful pain relievers, patients are beginning to benefit, Reynolds says. "More people are getting a very little bit of opioids, and that's good," she says. "But those who need high doses are still being put through hell. These drugs are a miracle for the right people: they...
...battle. You keep pushing the rock up the hill, right? They were pretty meticulous at hunting down new poisons. And is it a never-ending game? Absolutely. We're always inventing new, creative industrial chemicals. You see the thing same today that you saw then, which is when we get 'gee whizzy' about things and put them out there in our every day lives without having enough proper respect or understanding of them...
...also more constrained by rules as to how many steps they can take in between elements and how many seconds the man must hold his partner in lifts. Ballroom dancing, says Johnson, who won her season of DWTS in 2009, is also harder than it looks. "You don't get an appreciation of it just by watching it," she says. "But if you actually get into it and do it, it's rigorous, hard, and takes a lot of training and dedication. As soon as you do it, you're like, 'Wow.' " (The appeal does indeed cut both ways...