Understanding Drug Dependence

02/27/2008:	Understanding Pain
	Pain: What is it? How do we perceive it? How is it diagnosed? Acute versus chronic pain, pain management, and what are the options to the prescription drugs that can create drug addiction or drug dependence?
02/26/2008:	Withdrawal from Drugs and/or Alcohol
	The signs and symptoms of drug and/or alcohol withdrawal will vary with your unique DNA....find out what might be expected if you try to go through withdrawal on your own.
02/25/2008:	Adverse Drug Reactions and Your Metabolism
	For years, the perplexing question for doctors was why one person, taking the exact same drugs as another, experiences an adverse drug reaction and the other doesn't? Genetics scientists believe that the explanation for many of these adverse drug reactions may be the way that drugs are metabolized in each of us......
02/24/2008:	Xanax, The Dangerous Benzodiazepine
	Xanax was introduced in 1969 and is the fifth most commonly prescribed drug in America, according to data from IMS Health, a health care information company. In 2006, 37.5 million prescriptions for it were dispensed, up from 29.9 million in 2002. How does Xanax work and why is it dangerous?
02/20/2008:	The Fentanyl Patch
	In 2007, a...Review of the U.S. FDA's most dangerous drugs...discovered fentanyl to be the second most dangerous drug available on the market with the second highest number of suspect drug deaths. Why is it still on the market?