by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/how-poison-frogs-could-crush-addiction Could Poison Frogs Crush Addiction? Frog evolution could one day help block nicotine and other substances BY JASON DALEY | DEC 11 2017 Poison dart frogs are some of the most brilliantly colored...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://monitoringthefuture.org/pressreleases/17drugpr.pdf Nicholas Prieur, 734-763-5043, mtfpressrelease@umich.edu Marijuana Use Edges Upward ANN ARBOR—Marijuana use among adolescents edged upward in 2017, the first significant increase in seven years. Overall,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/12/04/opioid-addiction-treatment-referrals-criminal-justice-system/ Barbara Benham Published Dec 4 A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that fewer than 5 percent of people referred for opioid...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
The surgeon general and his brother: A family’s painful reckoning with addiction ANDREW JOSEPH School photos of Jerome Adams, left, and his brother, Phillip. Text is from a 2009 letter by Phillip.PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: DOM SMITH/STAT MECHANICSVILLE, Md. — The path that...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/health/2017/12/05/drug-addiction-struggles-spotlighted-obituaries-following-years-silence/913227001/ David Robinson Peter Ballesty died of a heroin overdose in 2013 and his family disclosed his addiction struggle in an obituary. Wochit...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/fight-opioid-addiction-scientists-see-promise-in-sea-snail-venom-spd/ By Elaina Zachos PUBLISHED DECEMBER 5, 2017 The next frontier of drug research may be underwater. President Donald Trump has officially declared the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.jahonline.org/pb/assets/raw/Health%20Advance/journals/jah/aip.pdf Louise Lester, M.P.H. *, Ruth Baker, Ph.D., Carol Coupland, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Orton, Ph.D. ABSTRACT Purpose: The burden of alcohol-attributable disease is a global problem. Young people...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2664093/cost-effectiveness-publicly-funded-treatment-opioid-use-disorder-california Abstract Background:Only 1 in 5 of the nearly 2.4 million Americans with an opioid use disorder received treatment in 2015. Fewer than half of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://ndews.umd.edu/sites/ndews.umd.edu/files/ndews-news-issue-6-december-2017.pdf NDEWS A Publication of the National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS) Issue 6 ◊ December 4, 2017 News www.ndews.org ndews@umd.edu @NDEWSNews The number of calls to U.S. poison control...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm587315.htm?utm_campaign=11302017_Statement_Following%20bunep%20release&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD With the approval today of a monthly formulation of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-anti-smoking-tv-ads-20171121-story.html Matthew Perrone Associated Press Cigarette makers will once again be advertising on TV — but their ads are court-ordered warnings to consumers. (Matt Cardy / Getty Images) Matthew...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/22/563815531/asking-about-opioids-a-treatment-plan-can-make-all-the-difference JAMES MORRISON Dr. Terry Horton, chief of addiction medicine and medical director of Project Engage at Christiana Care Health System,...