Recreational Drugs

Methoxetamine Side Effects: MXE or Mexxy May Be Legal But It’s Not Safe

Methoxetamine: cheap and legal ketamine substitute threatens health of Europe’s clubbers

The deaths of two people on the weekend before Valentine’s Day in Leicestershire, a medium-sized United Kingdom county, have alerted British police to the growing menace of a new legal substitute for the street drug ketamine.

The deaths also highlight a growing modern peril: the rising availability of legal substitutes for street drugs that are highly popular, easy to acquire, but just as deadly. It’s a peril that doctors and law enforcers say is spreading throughout the United Kingdom and northern Europe — and authorities in the United States have pricked-up their ears.

Leicestershire police investigating the two deaths say one such legal substitute called methoxetamine may have killed the 59-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man in Leicester and Melton Mowbray two weeks ago.

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Male Health Drugs

Propecia Side Effects: ED and Impotence?

Propecia Side Effects: Impotence & Erectile Dysfunction? Hair growth drug Propecia solves baldness but does it cause impotence? If you had to make a choice between having a head full of hair and being able to ‘get it up’ whenever you want, which would you choose?

Or, let’s put it this way: if you’re male and you’re balding, would you do everything you can to get back a head full of hair? If this meant that the best medication for baldness would also make you impotent, would you still go ahead and take these drug?

Because that’s what it means to take finasteride, a drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration since 1997 for the treatment of male pattern baldness (MPB).

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Drug Side Effects

Korlym Drug for Cushing’s Syndrome: Safety, Risks, & Side Effects

Korlym Side Effects, Safety, and Risks. The symptoms are distressing: A fatty hump between your shoulders like a buffalo hump. A rounded or “moon” face. Acne, obesity and fatty deposits around the abdomen. Pink or purple stretch marks on the skin abdomen, thighs, breasts and arms. Thin and fragile skin that bruises easily. Slow healing of cuts, insect bites and infections.

The disease also brings fatigue, muscle weakness, depression, anxiety and irritability, loss of emotional control and cognitive difficulties, new or worsened high blood pressure and headache.

Women who have this disease have thicker facial hair, and irregular or absent menstrual periods, while men experience erectile dysfunction, decreased libido and fertility.

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Drug Side Effects

Zioptan Side Effects, Precautions, Dos & Don’ts

Zioptan Side Effects, Precautions, Dos & Don’ts. It’s been called the “silent thief of sight” because it causes gradual vision loss over a long time. By the time you notice the symptoms, the disease is quite advanced and even with treatment, ten percent of sufferers still end up blind.

It’s glaucoma, and it’s the second leading cause of blindness globally, after cataracts, affecting one in 200 people aged 50 and younger—with that number rising to one in 10 for people over the age of eighty.

Over 60.5 million people worldwide and 120,000 Americans have glaucoma and by 2020, ophthalmologists estimated that their numbers will rise to 79.6 million. The numbers in China and India are bigger, and the disease is a leading cause of blindness among African Americans.

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Drug Side Effects

Xanax Alcohol Side Effects: It’s a Dangerous Combination

Whitney Houston’s death draws attention to dangerous drug combos. Paying tribute to the extraordinary singer Whitney Houston, wouldn’t be quite right without a sober contemplation of what her death draws attention to—the growing dangers posed by lethal drug combinations in today’s hectic and quick-fix-crazed world.

While the exact cause of Houston’s death may not be known for a month or more until the official toxicology report is released, doctors suspect the cause of death was a deadly cocktail of the prescription anti-anxiety drug Xanax, other drugs and alcohol.

The 48-year-old singer, after all, had a history of alcohol and drug abuse and a prescription for Xanax, and had checked into rehab centers at least three times during her career.

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