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Which Painkiller Is Right? One opioid is associated with a significantly higher risk of overdose than other drugs: methadone, which is being used increasingly to treat chronic pain because it is cheaper and draws less scrutiny than other strong, long-acting opioids like Oxycontin...
...some cases, however, undertreated pain may contribute to a situation that looks like addiction; patients ask for higher and higher doses and appear to be drug-seeking, when in fact they are looking for effective pain relief...
Since the most severely injured troops were the most likely to receive morphine - and since this same group would be at a higher risk for developing PTSD - the finding is particularly striking. "It's incredibly exciting," says Dr. Glenn Saxe, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who has conducted similar research in pediatric burn victims. "You could potentially be able to [reduce] the likelihood of getting a bad disorder like PTSD...
...what accounted for the higher global temperature? According to a new paper in Nature, one possible factor is hurricanes. Scientists have long suspected that global warming could make hurricanes more intense somehow, but the new study suggests the effect works both ways: tropical cyclones could help drive up temperatures in response. "We're suggesting that hurricanes could have created a permanent El Niño condition," says Yale's Alexey Fedorov, lead author of the study. (See pictures of the effects of climate change...
...blue collar workers and those without higher education will have to wait longer for employment opportunities, according to Miron...