by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/body-work/when-raised-among-drug-and-alcohol-abuse-what-makes-some-teens-resilient Kevin Joy Kids with a family history of substance use are likely to mimic those behaviors. A Michigan Medicine researcher studied their brain activity to...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43420999 Image copyrightJONATHAN LEVINSON/PRIImage captionEmily Albert begins her treatment to try and end years of opioid and heroin abuse As America’s opioid and heroin crisis rages, some struggling with addiction are...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-cummings-warren-opioid-20180416-story.html Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts are planning to introduce legislation Wednesday that would require $10 billion a year in...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/asam/72347 Ian Ingram, Deputy Managing Editor, MedPage TodayApril 15, 2018 SAN DIEGO — In a 3-month span, 12.7% of patients undergoing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder who were given...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Candy or nicotine? Flavored e-cigarettes manipulate brain activity Melissa Peyer Marc Boudreaux Researchers from the Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science found in a recent study that advertisements for flavored e-cigarettes may override negative perceptions of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/us/opioid-addiction.html Retro Report By CLYDE HABERMAN APRIL 15, 2018 Scrambling for ways to contain America’s out-of-control opioid crisis, some experts in the field are convinced that one bit of good advice is to just say no to...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)30134-X/fulltext Angela M Wood, PhD et al Summary Background Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancraig/2018/04/06/colleges-must-do-more-to-address-the-opioid-epidemic/#474d12cb3827 Ryan Craig , CONTRIBUTOR Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Over spring break my 12-year-old son Leo pushed me to take him on Los...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
The Human Tragedy of the Opioid Crisis By Margaret Chisolm, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “When an Epidemic Is Personal” is a beautiful New York Times piece that captures the human tragedy of the opioid crisis in the most personal and devastating of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/advocacy/news/asam-advocacy-blog/2018/04/12/the-asam-criteria-discussed-in-house-congressional-hearing-about-solutions-to-the-opioid-crisis Statement from the president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Kelly J. Clark, MD, MBA,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/a-look-at-how-the-opioid-crisis-has-affected-people-with-employer-coverage/#item-start By Cynthia Cox, Matthew Rae and Bradley Sawyer Kaiser Family Foundation With deaths from opioid overdose rising steeply in recent years,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.fox25boston.com/news/hidden-illness-bacterial-infection-adding-to-opioid-epidemic-death-toll/729892751 BOSTON — It is the epidemic behind the epidemic. A killer condition that takes its victims in sometimes brutal...
