by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/04/the-race-to-learn-whats-really-happening-in-the-opioid-crisis/555191/ LINDA POON Madison McVeigh/CityLab/Matt Rourke/AP The Race to Learn What’s Really Happening in the Opioid Crisis LINDA POON APR 30, 2018 Cities and towns...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/25/google-opioid-addiction-tools/ Jon Fingas, @jonfingas Stansberry Research GIPhotoStock via Getty Images Google is using its influence as a search giant to fight opioid addiction in the US. The company has partnered with the Drug...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/congress-members-soften-their-approach-on-addiction by Kimberly Leonard. President Trump spoke in New Hampshire in March, unveiling more of his plan to combat the nation’s opioid crisis. His blueprint contains...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment This week, the dominant theme in the addiction literature is opioids; so we concede to that topic primacy, for this issue. As one Hilo, Hawaii resident reminded me, all volcanic...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1801417?query=featured_home& Maria A. Oquendo, M.D., Ph.D., and Nora D. Volkow, M.D. As the toll of opioid-overdose deaths in the United States rises, we face an urgent need for prevention. But preventing such deaths...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/advocacy/news/asam-advocacy-blog/2018/04/19/asam-applauds-introduction-of-new-legislation-to-strengthen-the-addiction-treatment-workforce The opioid misuse and addiction epidemic is devastating communities across the United States. During the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.cmanet.org/news/detail/?article=doj-certifies-cures-physicians-must-check The California Department of Justice (DOJ) has certified that as of April 2, 2018, the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) – California’s...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2018/04/19/peds.2017-3787 Hongying Dai, Delwyn Catley, Kimber P. Richter, Kathy Goggin, Edward F. Ellerbeck BACKGROUND: Cigarettes have been strongly associated with subsequent marijuana use among adolescents, but...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/A_Randomized,_Placebo_controlled,_Clinical_Trial.99477.aspx Wilcox, Claire, E., MD; Tonigan, J., Scott, PhD; Bogenschutz, Michael, P., MD; Clifford, Joshua, BA; Bigelow, Rose, MS; Simpson, Tracy,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://blog.content.health.harvard.edu/blog/binge-drinking-continues-to-rise-particularly-among-women-and-seniors/?utm_source=mc&utm_medium=btc&utm_campaign=041118 BY BEVERLY MERZ Women usually welcome news that the gender gap in pay or leadership positions...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
On Child Welfare, an Insufficient Federal Response to the Opioid Epidemic by Angie Schwartz and Sean Hughes In 2012, following more than a decade of significant decline, the number of American children in foster care began rising. Between 2012 and 2016, the number of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment William Haning, MD A link below honors the singer Eminem for a sobriety accomplishment, 10 years of abstinence. It will be for some a mixed message. Of two, the former and probably...
