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96A Survivor's Guide to Life After a Total Hip Replacement Surgery
This piece conveys the angst and curiosity faced by a woman beset with unusual physical pain. She learns later that she needs total hip replacement surgery.
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97Why Heroin Addicts Can't Recover
They can get better. Lets lay that out there before going any further. In many cases, however, heroin addicts make repeated attempts to “get clean” that fail almost before they get off the ground. Almost everyone has heard a heart wrenching...
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94Morphine Affected Me with Low Blood Pressure
I'm not a doctor, nor do I have even the tiniest bit of medical training, so I am not claiming to know anything other than how morphine affects me. Have you had any ill effects from the drug?
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91Truth vs. Myth About Methadone Treatment
According to Emmett Velten, Ph. D., rumors thrive under two conditions: high emotion, and a lack of education. "The rumors and mythology surrounding methadone treatment may differ from normal rumors, because the emotionality surrounding methadone...
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85The abstinence verses the harm reduction model of addiction treatment contrasted
In this piece I am going to first define abstinence, harm reduction, heroin and HIV. Then i’m going to compare and contrast the abstinence model versus the harm reduction model in relation to a person who uses heroin and has also HIV under...
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84The Poisons of Agatha Christe
Agatha Christie remains one of the most popular and famous of mystery writers. She often used poison to dispatch her victims. This hub article covers some of the common, and readily available, poisons she used, plus also the not-so common poisons.
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84Constipation from narcotic painkillers' and multiple surgeries can result in inguinal hernia and ligament damage.
Constipation following multiple surgeries often leads to yet more surgery from complications. This is a personal account of narcotic pain killers producing a hernia and torn ligaments and what I do now to prevent such damage.
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81Songs of the Week that have Thursday in them
I'm continuing my hub series where I write a hub each day about songs that use one of the days of the week in their title. This hub is on songs that have "Thursday" in their titles. Two tragic deaths of...
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81Why was Coca Cola invented ?
ohn Pemberton, the inventor of the Coca Cola syrup, had become addicted to morphine. Being a brilliant chemist, he searched for a cure to his addiction, or at least a more modern substitute. Necessity is the mother of invention...
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77HELP - TYPICAL ER VISIT in U.S. > who says the system isn’t broken?
My personal ER experience makes determination to find alternative healing modalities even more essential! Preventative measures shared here.
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