Show 970: Health News Update on Hydrocodone and Vitamin D
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Hydrocodone Painkillers
Last month, the Drug Enforcement Administration changed its classification of hydrocodone containing pain relievers. The new rules will make it more difficult for some patients to get their medications. What will they mean for you?
Movember
By now, everyone is pretty well aware that October is colored pink to draw attention to breast cancer. The idea is to raise money for research and awareness for screening.
November isn’t pink…but have you noticed a number of men in your circle growing mustaches? They may be participating in Movember, a movement to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer and men’s health.
Vitamin D
As we head into winter, people in most parts of the country will not be able to make vitamin D by exposing their skin to sunlight. The sun is too low in the sky, and anyway it is too cold to bare very much skin. So how do we get vitamin D and why should we care?
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This Week’s Guests:
David Kroll, PhD, is a pharmacologist and medical writer in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. He blogs at Forbes.com and has written about the hydrocodone rule changes. The photograph is of Dr. Kroll.
Tieraona Low Dog, MD, is director of Fellowship for the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, and one of the country’s leading experts on the science of dietary supplements. Her latest book is Healthy at Home: Get Well and Stay Well without Prescriptions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Terry Graydon. |
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| 0:17.0 | That's S-Q-U-A-T-Y-P-O-T-Y.com. |
| 0:27.1 | The DEA has changed the rules on hydrocodone-containing pain relievers. |
| 0:36.1 | What does this mean for people in severe pain? |
| 0:39.3 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:49.8 | Narcotic pain relievers are the most widely prescribed drugs in America today. |
| 0:55.1 | Drug diversion and abuse have become major societal problems. |
| 0:59.5 | But for millions of people in chronic pain, there will be new barriers to getting their prescriptions filled. |
| 1:05.6 | A pharmacologist explains the new law and how it might affect you. |
| 1:10.1 | We'll also talk with Dr. Taroni-Lodog |
| 1:12.6 | about vitamin D. With winter coming on, getting vitamin D from sitting in the sun is hard. Do you need |
| 1:18.8 | a supplement? Coming up on the people's pharmacy, the health news that matters to you, plus your |
| 1:23.8 | calls and questions. First, this news. |
| 1:36.4 | In the people's pharmacy health headlines, new research may bolster the use of turmeric, |
| 1:39.6 | the yellow spice and curry, to fight inflammation. |
| 1:57.7 | The presumed active ingredient, curcumin, has shown remarkable activity in tissue culture studies suggesting it could be beneficial against arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes, liver disease, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, wounds, and many other conditions. |
| 2:02.4 | The trouble is that it's difficult to achieve comparable results in clinical trials because curcumin is not absorbed well from the digestive tract. Now, scientists at Ohio |
| 2:09.1 | State have found a way to overcome that obstacle. They formulated curcumin in a nano-emulsion |
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