| Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Announces Positive Phase II Trial ...
Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPRX), a biopharmaceutical company that acquires, in-licenses, develops and commercializes prescription drugs for the treatment of drug addiction, announced positive initial top-line results from an investigator-initiated Phase II double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, which demonstrates that vigabatrin is effective for the treatment of cocaine addiction. Catalyst's lead compound, CPP-109, is bioequivalent to vigabatrin.
This 103 subject trial is the first randomized, double-blind, placebo- controlled clinical trial studying vigabatrin's effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction. These data show that a statistically significantly greater number of subjects treated with vigabatrin were able to abstain from cocaine usage during the last three weeks of the dosing period compared to those receiving placebo.
Popping pills in the suburbs?
There have been recent raids on dealers of prescription narcotics stolen from pharmacies. But the story-behind-the-story is the people who may be in your neighborhood or where you work who are getting high popping pain pills. It's drug abuse that may defy every stereotype you have about who's addicted and who's a dealer. "It was about a money-making thing for the doctors and pharmacies, and it was an addiction for me," Bill Wallace said. Wallace, a former Houston bank executive, agreed to talk openly about his past addiction. An addiction not to heroin or cocaine but to prescription painkillers. "I'd hurt my back," he said. A back injury led to a visit to his doctor. "He gave me Vicodin," he said.
Dermatologist gets jail for selling drugs
Paul Caviness said he traded prescription painkillers to feed his addiction. He apologized for letting down his patients. More Philadelphia Suburbs news A former Middletown dermatologist will serve at least two months behind bars for selling prescription painkillers to feed his drug habit. Paul Caviness, 49, was sentenced Friday in Bucks County Court to nine to 23 months in county prison. Judge John Rufe ruled that Caviness must spend the first two months of that sentence at the jail, then four months on work release and the remaining time on house arrest. .
Man who demanded methadone at drug store sought
It is a drug designed to help people break addictions. One Tucson man wanted it so badly, he was willing to rob a pharmacy to get it. It happened yesterday at the Walgreens location at Ina and La Cholla. A man showed a pharmacist a gun and walked away with methadone. Nevertheless, thanks to some remarkably clear surveillance video, he may not be on the run for long. The suspect is seen fully-clothed and wore sunglasses and a hat to hide his face in the surveillance video. "She didn't' notice it at first," Detective Shaun George, from the Pima County Sheriff's Department, explains. The suspect looks around and into the camera once or twice, then asks for a prescription of methadone. Det.
Limbaugh Will Not Be Charged For Viagra Possession
Prosecutors announced Wednesday that they will not charge conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh with possession of Viagra without a prescription. Limbaugh was found carrying the drug in his luggage at Palm Beach International Airport on June 26 after returning from the Dominican Republic. The Viagra was prescribed for someone else.
Had Limbaugh faced charges, it could have jeopardized the deal his lawyers made with prosecutors in his earlier case. Limbaugh pled guilty to 'doctor shopping' after admitting he was addicted to prescription painkillers. Limbaugh was charged with lying to doctors to obtain extra painkilling medication to feed his addiction.
The Florida State Attorney's office agreed to drop the charges when Limbaugh's doctor, Steve Strumwasser, said that his name was placed on the bottle to help Limbaugh avoid the embarrassment associated with taking erectile dysfunction medication.
Las Vegas teen OD's on prescription meds
When you tell a doctor you're in pain, you expect an examination, and maybe a prescription for relief. But pain medication can be as addictive as heroin, and prescription drugs contribute to more overdose deaths than illegal street drugs. In a News 3 hidden camera investigation, Darcy Spears tells us how one young man's minor medical issue became a major addiction.
John Delprete began taking pain pills as a teenager. After four years, his habit became too hard to handle. The amount of drugs he was prescribed, and the end result of his taking them all, has led to an investigation by the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners for what his parents claim was a preventable death.
"He was a very loving kid, always said, I love you mom, always gave hugs, was very understanding," said Donna Delprete, John's mother.
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