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Carisoprodol, sold under the brand name Soma among others, is an oral medication used for musculoskeletal pain. [7] Effects generally begin within half an hour and last for up to six hours. [7] [7] Common side effects include headache, dizziness, and sleepiness. [7] Serious side effect may include addiction, allergic reactions, and seizures. [7]
Soma is a fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian sci-fi novel Brave New World. In the novel, soma is an "opiate of the masses" that replaces religion and alcohol in a peaceful, but immoral, high-tech society far in the future.
Poly drug use often carries more risk than use of a single drug, due to an increase in side effects, and drug synergy. For example, the chance of death from overdosing on opiates is greatly increased when they are consumed in conjunction with alcohol. [2] While they are two distinct phenomena, deaths from CDI are often misreported as overdoses. [3]
To sit in the back of the room watching the impeccably dressed, articulate men and women who are orchestrating Johnson & Johnson’s trailblazing cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, AIDS and mental illness, and to watch the Wall Street crowd digesting it and calculating the potential cash flows and returns on investment, was to watch the free market dream come true.
[medical citation needed] Side effects such as sedation and ataxia are also less pronounced with nonbenzodiazepine antispasmodics. [ medical citation needed ] In a study on the treatment of musculoskeletal pain treatment with cyclobenzaprine alone or in combination with ibuprofen , no significant differences in pain scores were noted among the ...
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Richard E. Besser (born August 29, 1959) is an American doctor and executive who has served as president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since April 2017. Besser served as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) from January to ...
Richard Kremer FRCPC is a physician-scientist who specializes in Endocrinology and Laboratory Medicine. [1] [2] Kremer is professor of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1] He is also a Senior Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre at its Centre for Translational Biology. [3]