by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Who_Leaves_Early__Factors_Associated_With_Against.99459.aspx Pytell, Jarratt D., MD; Rastegar, Darius A., MD Objective: To determine if certain patient, clinical, and disease factors are...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment Bill Haning MD The British Medical Journal article on increased alcoholic hepatic mortality reads well against a JAMA article drawn from 70 years of Australian statistics (below),...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k2817 Elliot B Tapper, assistant professor12, Neehar D Parikh, assistant professor12 Abstract Objective To describe liver disease related mortality in the United States during 1999-2016 by age group, sex, race, cause of liver...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/dining/addiction-recovery-restaurant-dv8-kitchen-kentucky.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top Priya Krishna A Kentucky couple realized that restaurants have an...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/10/627519801/behind-bars-mentally-ill-inmates-are-often-punished-for-their-symptoms DAVE DAVIES Roy Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images By some accounts, nearly half of America’s incarcerated population is mentally...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/12/senate-report-opioids-distribution/ Lev Facher Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES W ASHINGTON — A Senate report released Thursday lays out systematic failures in the reporting system for suspicious opioid orders,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-gregg-opioid-crisis_us_5b44ce62e4b048036ea2ff25 Jessica Gregg PURERADIANCEPHOTO / GETTY IMAGES Many of us have inadvertently harmed our patients by overprescribing what we now know are addictive opioids. I’m a...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://alert.psychnews.org/2018/07/opioid-prescribing-for-teens-exceeded.html Between 2005 and 2016, opioid prescriptions for adolescents generally were written for longer than three days, and the number of prescriptions filled for four and five day supplies...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2685627 James S. Goodwin, MD1,2,3; Yong-Fang Kuo, PhD1,2,3; David Brown, MD4; et al Abstract Importance The causes of the opioid epidemic are incompletely understood. Objective To explore the overlap...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/guidance-for-families-dealing-with-substance-use-disorders/2018/06/29/8ab02c1c-762b-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bed9586b7a1b By Alexandra Rockey Fleming Licensed professional...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1804059?query=featured_secondary Brendan Saloner, Ph.D., Kenneth B. Stoller, M.D., and G. Caleb Alexander, M.D. Audio Interview Interview with Dr. Brendan Saloner on increasing access to medication for treatment of opioid use...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2687652/opioid-use-disorder-stigma-transplantation-call-action Sarah E. Wakeman, MD; Keren Ladin, PhD, MSc; Tim Brennan, MD; Raymond T. Chung, MD More than 2 million Americans have an opioid use disorder (OUD). Although untreated...
