Report: A quarter of teenagers who use e-cigarettes have tried ‘dripping’

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/08/report-a-quarter-of-teenagers-who-use-e-cigarettes-have-tried-dripping/?utm_term=.200296670719 By Ben Guarino (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) In 2003, after his father died from a tobacco habit,...

Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/pdfs/mm655051e1.pdf Rose A. Rudd, MSPH1; Puja Seth, PhD1; Felicita David, MS1; Lawrence Scholl, PhD1,2 Summary What is already known about this topic? The U.S. opioid epidemic is continuing. Drug overdose deaths nearly tripled...

This Tongue-in-Cheek Campaign Fixes Big Tobacco’s ‘Corrective Statements’ An antismoking nonprofit in Minnesota worked with its AOR to roll out the ‘corrections’

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

This Tongue-in-Cheek Campaign Fixes Big Tobacco’s ‘Corrective Statements’ By Lindsay Rittenhouse | December 13, 2017 According to several industry experts, big tobacco companies designed their court-mandated “corrective statements”—ads explaining the...

I Can’t Fix It: A First Responder and Heroin

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.wnyc.org/story/mark-strickland-death-sex-money/ Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email a Friend ( Mark Strickland ) i Dec 13, 2017 SummaryTranscript Mark Strickland knew he wanted to be a first responder when he was five years old. “It was a way to...

NORWAY WANTS TO DECRIMINALIZE DRUG USE AND FOCUS ON TREATMENT

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

http://www.newsweek.com/norway-wants-decriminalize-drugs-748356 BY MELINA DELKIC  AND FOCUS ON TREATMENT BY MELINA DELKIC ON 12/14/17 AT 1:37 PM U.S.NORWAYDECRIMINALIZATION Norway started a push to decriminalize drug use this week, when the majority of its parliament...

Scientists develop first ever breathalyser test for drugs New methods could see police able to test drivers for drugs by the roadside without need for blood or urine samples

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-develop-breathalyser-drug-test-limit-alcohol-methadone-university-of-gothenburg-a8099186.html Ben Kentish @BenKentish   A person’s breath contains tiny particles of any drugs present in their body Rex...

Prior alcohol use enhances vulnerability to compulsive cocaine self-administration by promoting degradation of HDAC4 and HDAC5

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/e1701682 Edmund A. Griffin Jr.1,2, Philippe A. Melas3,4, Royce Zhou1,*, Yang Li1, Peter Mercado1, Kimberly A. Kempadoo3, Stacy Stephenson1, Luca Colnaghi3,†, Kathleen Taylor1, Mei-Chen Hu1, Eric R. Kandel1,2,3,5,6,‡ and...

Effect of Perioperative Gabapentin on Postoperative Pain Resolution and Opioid Cessation in a Mixed Surgical Cohort A Randomized Clinical Trial

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2664958?redirect=true Jennifer Hah, MD, MS1; Sean C. Mackey, MD, PhD1; Peter Schmidt, MD2; et al Key Points Question  What is the effect of perioperative gabapentin on remote pain resolution and opioid...

Q&A: How Is the US Opioid Crisis Affecting Children? A historic and deadly wave of opioid addiction is flooding children into the U.S. foster care system.

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/georgia/articles/2017-12-12/q-a-how-is-the-us-opioid-crisis-affecting-children By MATT SEDENSKY, AP National Writer This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New...

The single biggest reason America is failing in its response to the opioid epidemic We need to stop treating addiction as a moral failure — or more people will die.

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/18/16635910/opioid-epidemic-lessons By German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com  Dec 18, 2017, 7:30am EST A memorial calls into question God’s existence in West Virginia, the state worst hit by America’s opioid...

PA Sets New Guidelines In Prescribing Opioids To Kids

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

http://wesa.fm/post/pa-sets-new-guidelines-prescribing-opioids-kids#stream/0 By JOEL WOLFRAM Acting Secretary of Health and Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine announces new safety guidelines for prescribing opioids to children. EMMA LEE/WHYY Pennsylvania’s top health...

Health & Science States to try new ways of executing prisoners. Their latest idea? Opioids.

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/states-choose-new-ways-to-execute-prisoners-their-latest-idea-opioids/2017/12/09/3eb9bafa-d539-11e7-95bf-df7c19270879_story.html?utm_term=.a6c032b926f8 By William Wan and Mark Berman December 9 Until a court...