by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2682878 Tara Gomes, PhD1,2; Mina Tadrous, PharmD, PhD1; Muhammad M. Mamdani, PharmD, MA, MPH1,2; et al Key Points Question What has been the burden of opioid-related deaths in the United States over a...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0607-suicide-prevention.html Suicide rates rose across the US from 1999 to 2016. View large image and text description Suicide rates have been rising in nearly every state, according to the latest Vital Signs report by the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/purdue-knew-its-opioids-were-widely-abused-by-late-90s.html By Eric Levitz May cause historic public-health crisis if used as expected. Photo: George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images Like so many of our nation’s current...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Portland doctor on front lines of heroin crisis publishes poetry book BY JOE LAWLORSTAFF WRITER Dr. Mary Dowd of Yarmouth has published “The Heroin Diaries,” a book of 72 poems she wrote about her experiences from over a decade of treating people with...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/addiction/phillys-heroin-camps-illustrate-how-housing-instability-hurts-health-20180529.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar by Antoinette Kraus, Director of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network @ATK2003 Tuesday, June 5,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17389048/needle-exchange-opioid-epidemic-orange-county By German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com May 29, 2018, 8:00am EDT Discarded syringes at a needle exchange in Ventura County, California. Spencer Weiner/Los...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/messages/2018/how-aware-are-we-really-about-mental-illness.shtml Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD Director NIMH On the one hand, it is all around us. With nearly 1 in 5 of Americans suffering from a diagnosable mental illness in any...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2018/05/15/peds.2016-3927 Casey G. Sommerfeld, Daniel J. Weiner, Andrew Nowalk, Allyson Larkin Abstract Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use, or “vaping,” is gaining widespread popularity as an alternative to...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Fulltext/2018/06000/Transferring_Patients_From_Methadone_to.10.aspx Lintzeris, Nicholas, PhD; Monds, Lauren, A., PhD; Rivas, Consuelo, RN; Leung, Stefanie, PhD; Dunlop, Adrian, PhD; Newcombe, David, PhD; Walters,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/advocacy/find-a-policy-statement/view-policy-statement/public-policy-statements/2018/05/30/public-policy-statement-on-ethical-promotion-and-patient-recruitment-by-addiction-treatment-programs Public Policy Statement on Ethical Promotion and...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment William Haning, MD, DFASAM, DFAPA Accountability Dostoevsky’s original title for “Crime and Punishment” was “The Drunkards,” intended to be a...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
By Rosa Goldensohn Prosecutors are increasingly treating overdose deaths as homicides, but they aren’t just going after dealers. Friends, family and fellow users are going to prison. HIBBING, Minn. — In West Virginia, a woman woke after a day of drug use to find her...
