Suboxone Sometimes when we try to be polite or politically correct, we distort the facts. Other times by trying to be precise we seem to be nit-picking. Take substance abuse. According to a Columbia Journalism Review article, the proper term in the latest [...]
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images on Pixabay Today (assuming you are reading it on the first day it is posted) is Black Balloon Day, a day conceived of to remember all the loved ones we have lost to drug overdoses in general and the Opioid [...]
The revolving door between FDA and Big Pharma may facilitate the approval of ever more powerful opioids such as Dsuvia. (Pixabay) Many people claim not to like Big Government. They call it the Nanny State. But private companies and people don’t always act [...]
Some "accidental" overdose deaths actually may be suicides. (Pixabay) Last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data revealing that life expectancy in the United States had decreased from 2016 to 2017. True, only by 0.1 percent overall, but the [...]
(Pixabay) Progress and social change rarely advance at a steady rate, be it voting rights or drug treatment. They operate more like a pendulum, swinging forward, then swinging back, and then forward again. Incremental changes result. Slavery in the United States ended after [...]
Though far behind men, more women are dying of drug overdoses since 1999, especially opioids. Since 1999 there has been a 260{b340406b661c1e5732b86e4172a84f651d0df9d8967334cfa4a3aae0d4c8bfbd} increase in the number of women, ages 30 to 64, dying due to a drug overdose, and an even larger increase [...]
This week (through Sunday, June 27) is National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week, a program intended to “to counteract the myths about drugs and alcohol that teens get from the internet, social media, TV, movies, music, or from friends.” “The best way to prevent alcohol, [...]
The ongoing shutdown of less than one-quarter of the United States federal government is having some unforeseen effects on the opioid addiction crisis. It will probably delay some prescriptions of the opioid replacement therapy/medication-assisted treatment buprenorphine. That’s because buprenorphine, a far less powerful opioid than [...]
President Donald Trump has proposed his opioid epidemic plan. It has three main strategies: Mount a campaign to persuade young people not to abuse drugs in the first place. This has been mocked as a return to the Just Say No and DARE strategies which [...]
from Pixabay Should clients in substance abuse rehabs for heroin or other opiate/opioid addiction be allowed to use methamphetamine or cocaine? Of course not, they are illegal, highly addictive, and detrimental to their health. How about marijuana? That’s absurd. Not only is it [...]
