by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://qz.com/1285250/one-in-five-us-adults-know-someone-who-has-been-addicted-to-opioids-according-to-new-fed-research/ Eshe Nelson, Dan Kopf Easy to access. (Reuters/Bryan Woolston) The US is facing an opioid crisis that is like no other country in the world. In...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/health/fake-weed-new-york-hospital/index.html Amir Vera, CNN PlayMuteMute Current Time0:25 / Duration Time1:22 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Source: CNN The dangers of synthetic marijuana 01:22 (CNN)Twenty-five people have been...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11121-018-0908-3 Brian J. Fairman Email author C. Debra Furr-Holden Renee M. Johnson Recent loosening of state and federal policy restrictions on marijuana, along with changes in social norms regarding marijuana use and...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2681835?resultClick=1 Rita Rubin, MA Until recently, when people came to Massachusetts General Hospital’s emergency department (ED) desperate to stop using heroin or prescription painkillers, physicians could only hand...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2018/05/17/med-students-congress-opioids Helen Jack, Siva Sundaram, Melanie Fritz and Colleen Zorc closemore Sign up for the CommonHealth newsletter to receive a weekly digest of WBUR’s best health, medicine and science coverage....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
By Laura Hilgers CreditManshen Lo Two years ago, I spent a week in Houston helping my stepbrother while he underwent treatment for Stage 4 lymphoma at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. I sat with him while a nurse cleaned his chemo port and made...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
By Benjamin Mueller, Robert Gebeloff and Sahil Chinoy There are many ways to get arrested on marijuana charges, but one pattern has remained true through years of piecemeal policy changes in New York City: The primary targets are black and Hispanic people.CreditMark...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.thefix.com/reclaiming-language-addict-edition By Amy Dresner 05/07/18 If somebody needs to call themselves a die-hard dopefiend so they don’t forget where they came from, let them. Do we really have to police ourselves? There’s a new push in the recovery...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm607884.htm Encouraging more widespread innovation and development of safe and effective treatments for opioid use disorder remains top agency priority Release; The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Gaps_in_the_Substance_Use_Disorder_Treatment.99471.aspx Blevins, Claire, E., PhD; Rawat, Nishi, MD; Stein, Michael, D., MD Objectives: The demand for substance use disorder treatment is...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walmart-to-restrict-opioids-to-7-day-supply-for-some/ By KATE GIBSON Walmart and Sam’s Club’s pharmacies will limit some customers to a seven-day supply of opioids, as the retail giant moves to help stem the epidemic that kills...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://mainepublic.org/post/maine-hospital-prescribing-medication-substance-use-disorder-er#stream/0 By PATTY WIGHT Dr. Ranjiv Advani (left), medical director of Mid Coast Hospital Emergency Department, and Dr. Leah Bauer, head psychiatrist of Mid Coast Hospital’s...
