Key findings from the study The study analyzed a large dataset over nearly ten years, focusing on patients with histories of alcohol and opioid use disorders. Researchers found that individuals taking semaglutide experienced: 50% lower rate of alcohol intoxication compared to those not on the medication.40% lower rate of opioid overdose incidents among those prescribed…
Kawu Sumaila, Kano South Senator of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has accused his colleagues of consuming hard drugs in their homes and offices, including supporting drug dealers in its trading. Senator Sumaila made the allegation during a plenary session on Tuesday while contributing to the Bill to establish the National Institute for Drug…
Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published November 16, 2016. Migraines affect 38 million men, women and children in the U.S. every year.1 They are much more than simply bad headaches, but rather are a neurological disorder, considered to be one of the more common disorders of the nervous system.2 Migraine…
Man poisons wife’s Coke with drugs to kill her and marry her daughter who was in on the plot A man admitted to poisoning his wife’s Coca-Cola drink with drugs, including cocaine and MDMA, with the aim of killing her and marrying her daughter. Alfred W Ruf, 71, has pleaded guilty to spiking his wife’s beverages at least a…
Dr Uchechukwu Okenwa, Director of Public Health and Disease Control at the Enugu State Ministry of Health, has advised Nigerians to stop taking anti-malaria drugs whenever they have a fever. Okenwa gave this advice on Saturday during the launch of the Advocacy Communication and Social Mobilisation (ACSM) Core Group for the Malaria Elimination Programme (IMPACT)…
Showcasing the contrabands at the Lagos Port complex (LPC) in Apapa yesterday, the Customs Area Controller, Babatunde Olomu, said the items were worth about N292.2 million. The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Area Command, seized seven containers at the port containing contraband items such as cutlasses, expired drugs, and potentially hazardous frozen chicken. Showcasing the…
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, June 23, 2024, said operatives raided the shrine after detecting a specially constructed large hole storage in a wall covered with wallpapers and fetish objects. Some NDLEA operatives have raided a shrine in the Igor community of Benin City, Edo State, which…
A buccal patch stuck to the inside of the mouth might deliver drugs more quickly and with fewer side effects. One of the most common ways of taking a drug is to swallow a pill. However, young children and people with health conditions ranging from Parkinson’s disease to throat cancer can have trouble getting down…
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts whether a patient will respond to cancer treatment drugs using individual tumor cells, according to a study published in Nature Cancer. Traditional approaches to drug-patient matching focus on bulk sequencing of tumor…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Sunday, said its operatives have launched massive raids across Lagos, Edo and Ondo state leading to the seizure of over 44,948.1 kilograms (44.9 tonnes) of illicit drugs and arrests of eight suspects as well as the seizure of 11 vehicles owned by the drug cartels. NDLEA said…
