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• Benzos Can Triple the Risk of Overdose Death in Opioid-Dependent Patients

  01-12-2019 15:38
  
  Opioid-dependent patients who are being treated with methadone or buprenorphine should not be prescribed benzodiazepines due to a three-fold increase in risk of overdose death, according to a new study from the University of Bristol in the U.K.
  This increase in overdose death risk was also observed in patients who had recently left opioid treatment. This is probably because these individuals continued to use opioid drugs after leaving treatment.
  Benzodiazepines, such as Xanax and Valium, are sed
  
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• 'Pilates-changed-my-life’ stories are annoying… but it did

  01-12-2019 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Over three years the exercise regime took Rachel Cooke from terrible back pain to new levels of fitness. But it was a lot harder than she expectedOne morning almost five years ago, I awoke from uneasy dreams and, like Gregor Samsa in Franz Kafka’s story, The Metamorphosis, found myself to be… well, not precisely an insect, but the effect was similar. Trying to get out of bed, I realised I could barely move. So excruciating was the pain in my back, my only option seemed to be to roll
  
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• Thousands of People Have Stopped Flying Because of Climate Change

  01-12-2019 11:53 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: CNN - Top StoriesActivist Maja Rosen launched the "Flight Free" campaign in Sweden in 2018 with the aim of encouraging 100,000 people not to fly for one year. Although only around 14,000 people signed the online "#flightfree2019" pledge, Rosen says that the campaign had made more people aware of the urgency of the climate crisis and motivated them to travel by train more often.
  
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