Overlook Medical Center in Summit announces its April/May calendar of events
Mountainside Library, Constitution Plaza, Mountainside. Wednesday … Monsignor John F. Corr Stroke and Neuro Education, Treatment and Research Center, Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute, Ground Floor, 95 Mount Kemble Avenue, Morristown. Msgr. John F.
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The opera singer who changed the civil rights movement
When the colour of her skin excluded her from a major concert hall, Anderson, who insisted she had no interest in being a social campaigner, became the centre of a fierce political storm. Anderson owned 762 South Martin Street, Philadelphia, for …
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Search dogs aid in Oso recovery operation
The local all-volunteer organization that's overseen by the Clark County Sheriff's Office and the local 911 dispatch center has had three canine teams sent to Oso so far, she said. When the pair … From her vantage point, she couldn't see all of it …
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Question by Tara: A family member that you’re not that close to is dangerously involved with drugs. What would you do?
Talking to this person is not an option; this person is destructive to everyone including herself. She has major problems but acts like everything is ok to the rest of the family. I don’t want to be a snitch AT ALL or cause problems in the rest of the family, but it is to the point where I am concerned that she is in some real trouble. I can’t reach her through her friends, because they are at least as involved in this stuff as she is. What should I do?

My husband knows everything about this situation also, and it has helped to talk to him about it, but he is also unsure of what to do.

To clarify: this isn’t ‘I know someone that smokes weed sometimes.’ These are hard drugs and the problems that come with them.
I definitely don’t and won’t enable this person. I do not even like her. Other members of the family enable her without realizing it, though… like they give her money ‘for school books’ or ‘for gas’ and that’s not where it goes. I don’t know if I should tell them or not. Perhaps my real concern is not even for/about her, but for members of the family that she is affecting. I do not think that they would ‘help her with bills’ if they knew a bill means a dealer.

Best answer:

Answer by kiku
You can’t do a thing. If you told any one she would lie!
You will have to distance your self!
And don’t look.
If she is over 21, then you have to leave her to go to rock bottom.

Keep yourself fresh till then, then you will be able to help her.

Very sad and heart breaking but the only way!!

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100 hear stories of overdose, addiction and recovery during forum at Rhode …
“Education, housing, jobs are what's needed for recovery to take hold.” … “Being in a family with an addict is like being in a car that's out of control,” observed Rebecca Boss, supervisor of the state's Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention Services.
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State senator leads drug talk
Fitzsimmons said within 72 hours after he was appointed state Senator last year, he was approached by a parent seeking treatment for their drug-addicted child. Fitzsimmons said he contacted treatment facilities throughout the state and found all were …
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DeLeo gets award for helping gambling addicts
"I looked at this as a way to get jobs to the blue-collar workers," he said of expanded gambling before a group at the Massachusetts Conference on Gambling Problems Friday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Rte. 9. But he understood the need to pass …
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State Highlights: Cash-Only Docs In Texas; Medicaid Funding In La.; Over-The …
… implemented in the state. Those rules require physicians to obtain hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of an abortion facility and to follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's protocol for drug-induced abortions rather than a common …
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Health week: Swing votes
The summary of the acne treatment Diane-35 concludes that its “benefits continue to outweigh the risks, when used as authorized.” A projected 40,000 Canadian women are prescribed the drug annually. An estimated 35 per cent-40 per cent of its use is …
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Prescription pills and pot labeled 'gateway' to heroin
St. Clair County Public Information Officer Deputy Steve Campau said, in many cases, the people start out taking legal, prescription drugs for one reason or another and they unwittingly get hooked. When their doctor cuts them off, they turn to the …
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Question by mdGreg C: I Saw an Ad for Tums “Dual Action”, the Other Day, Could the Equivalent of “Pepcid Complete” Be Made With -?
-Omeprazole?

Perhaps if it was Micro-Encapsulated, and Enterically Coated?
Thanks Byte Me, So, One Think it Would Have Been Done Already, BTW, it has to Be Enterically Coated.
Byte Me, I Used to Tell Patients, “If you Lost Weight, Many Problems Would Disappear”.
Hey Byte Me, Have you Been Scoped Again, After you Lost Weight, to Ensure that All the Metaplasia has Gone Away?
Byte Me,Shouldn’t Happen, but I’ve Seen this Before, “If you can’t Afford What it Costs to Stay Alive, then Die”.
Byte Me, Famotidine, I Looked it Up, to Make Sure.

Best answer:

Answer by Byte Me
Yes, it certainly could.

But Prilosec (omeprazole) is more of a maintenance, a long-term-type drug treatment (“proton pump inhibitor”), while Pepcid Complete is aimed at short-term (the antacid) and medium-term problems (the acid reducer – is it ranitadine?)

Omeprazole, while good for long-term acid erosion prevention, is pretty useless for _immediate_ pain because you have to be taking it for awhile, and build some up in your system, for it to work.

So my answer is, yes it could be done (and you wouldn’t even need the enteric coating), but it doesn’t make sense to try.

(EDIT: just researched it a little further – you’re right – coating WOULD be needed)

Antacids are used for immediate problems, “acid reducers” for the medium-term, and Prilosec or its cousin Nexium for long-term.

By the way, even slight weight losses have been shown to be dramatically effective in reducing GERD. When I got skinny I was able to cut my antacid and acid reducer use to almost nothing.

EDIT: No, I haven’t. This is the slow period of the year in my work and I’m short on $ , and have no medical insurance. We’re probably looking at another year or so.

They found the Barrett’s about a year-and-a-half ago. If it became cancer in the meantime, I’ll just have to die.

That’s life under capitalism.

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Guest Editorial: A physicians perspective of opiate abuse
The Centers for Disease Control states that death from drug overdose is now the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S. While drugs like heroin remain a prime cause of such deaths, CDC's most recent figures show that most – 60 percent – of …
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To Stop an Overdose: Heroin, Narcan and the New Public Policies That Are …
A person who takes a fatal dose of heroin or other opiate-based drug and stops breathing can often quickly be brought back if a friend, family member or medical professional has naloxone on hand and knows how to use it. …. noncoercive drug treatment …
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