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  • • Four million Americans a year are prescribed a longacting opiod.

    Doctors' Dilemma: How Real is that Pain? Melinda Beck 2011

  • • Four million Americans a year are prescribed a longacting opiod.

    Doctors' Dilemma: How Real is that Pain? Melinda Beck 2011

  • -- We are addicted to the Web because it triggers brain chemicals that give us an opiod thrill of the hunt for info.

    Coffee Break: March 12 2008

  • PINSKY: Well, but you're switching one for another -- one opiate and opiod.

    CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2009 2009

  • The opiod-like "high" they glean from skull-piercing phone radiation is documented in animal studies to habituate like nicotine. 1 No one has told them that an extended cell phone "fix" enshrouds their bodies in high-frequency electromagnetic energy with potential to unleash devastating effects on both their living and future offspring.

    Microwave Technology: An End to the Human Race 2008

  • The opiod-like "high" they glean from skull-piercing phone radiation is documented in animal studies to habituate like nicotine. 1 No one has told them that an extended cell phone "fix" enshrouds their bodies in high-frequency electromagnetic energy with potential to unleash devastating effects on both their living and future offspring.

    Gerneration X'd out: An end to the human race as we know it? 2008

  • Anyway, since developing this evil disorder called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome which makes it sound much more pleasant than it really is, I've begun to take regular, opiod-derived pain medications.

    What Must be Done. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • After a patient is unconscious, then we usually also administer a second type of drug, which is usually an opiod type drug.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2007 2007

  • Researchers at Johns Hopkins have published results from a trial of a one-shot opiod-addiction drug that lasts for six weeks and prevents widthrawal symptoms.

    Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives 2004

  • That's not because doctors are acting as drug pushers but rather, the researchers found, they aren't taking the necessary precautions when prescribing addictive opiod painkillers like Vicodin, OxyContin, and Dilaudid.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

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