Posts by Team VIVA!

Groundswell in Aussies attending private Thai rehab facility over past five years. “Rehab tourism” is on the rise, with new figures revealing a more than doubling of Aussie patrons to a leading five-star drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Thailand over the past five years.1 Between 2010 to 2015, Australian visitors to DARA Drug and…

Ladies, you’ll be relieved to know that you’re better equipped than men to fight the flu due to your circulating oestrogen! According to a study conducted by researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, and published in the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology on January…

Recent research published in the Canadian Pharmacists Journal reveals pharmacist screening of patients deemed ‘at-risk’ of chronic kidney disease (CKD) revealed unrecognised disease in more than 15 per cent of patients tested. An article published in Pharmacy Daily on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 cites the “research is claimed to be one of the first studies…

New research published online in the Annals of Family Medicine on January 11, 2016 suggests opioid use may cause short-term improvement in mood, but long-term use for more than 30 days increases the risk of new-onset depression. Prescription opioids, such as codeine, morphine and hydrocodone, relieve pain by reducing the pain signals sent to the…

According to the Australian Drug Foundation, 8.1 per cent of Aussies aged 14 years and over have used cocaine one or more times in their life and 2.1 per cent in the same age bracket have used cocaine in the past 12 months.4  Cocaine, also referred2 to as “coke, cola, bump, snow, stardust or nose…