by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2723624?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2723073 Comment; It’s interesting that in California it seems that more white low-income folks die, but in NYC it’s more likely...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Adverse_Events_During_Treatment_Induction_With.99382.aspx Comment; Uncertain as to why this study was done, these are not drugs commonly used to treat opioid or other substsance use disorder....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/asamw-editorial-comment/asam-weekly-editorial-comment/2019/02/19/opioid-use-in-pregnancy-treatment-as-encompassing-more-than-the-drug-user-and-the-interval-of-pregnancy-2.19.2019 Comment; I don’t think maternal pure opioid blocker therapy is...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2723625?resultClick=1 Comment; Larger numbers of opioid prescriptions and overdoses among lower income white communities does mirror my observations as well....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/physician-groups-praise-panel-passage-bill-end-prior-authorization Comment; Ending Prior Authorizations for opioid treatment medications is a great start. We REALLY need to end Prior Authoriazations for ALL...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.propublica.org/article/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-massachusetts-lawsuit-anti-addiction-market Comment; The Sackler family is evil. They need to be taken out financially. This is their god. Oxycontin is an amoral product; neither good nor evil, it has helped...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/06/691746907/u-s-prosecutors-sue-to-stop-nation-s-first-supervised-injection-site Comment; I don’t think safe needle-exchange houses and places where illegal drugs are used, and in a sense promoted by the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-01-22/many-addiction-centers-lack-anti-opioid-meds-study Comment; I’m not so worried about facilities offering buprenorphine, methadone AND naltrexone. What concerns me is that only about a third of centers...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190129081939.htm Comment; PER2, which influences the body’s biological clock, and POMC, which regulates our stress-response system. Methylation of the promotor region of the DNA turns the gene “on”. This...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2721247 Comment; It’s about time that we had a Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome study on the effects of Buprenorphine! As I’ve suspected for a long time, it’s better than Methadone! Maybe...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/asamw-editorial-comment/asam-weekly-editorial-comment/2019/02/11/editorial-comment-cannabis-for-treatment-of-opioid-use-disorder-(oud) Comment; We DO need more information on Cannabis, one way or aother to support or suppress use of this plant. I...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2722776 Comment; So good to hear an academic residency director honestly disclosing the “sordid past” of her genetic makeup! Will the state medical board attack her too? A Piece of My...
