by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://futurism.com/fda-approved-opioid-addiction-treatment-device/ IN BRIEF A device originally designed for treating chronic and acute pain has received approval from the United States FDA to be used in opioid addiction treatments. The NSS-2 Bridge works by zapping...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://cobe.vcu.edu/does-prescription-drug-use-change-from-high-school-to-college/ Craig Zirpolo Over the past 5 years, opioid misuse in high school seniors has dropped 45 percent, from 8.7 to 4.8 percent according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But opioids...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01963/full Richard A. Inman1*, Sara M. G. da Silva2, Rasha R. Bayoumi2 and Paul H. P. Hanel3 A significant proportion of all deaths globally can be attributed to alcohol consumption. Although a range of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/11/11/these-parents-learned-their-kids-were-alive-from-a-cnn-story-on-heroin-addiction-in-boston By Dialynn Dwyer November 11, 2017 It wasn’t until Julie Chandler and Paul DiGiacomo saw a CNN reporter interviewing a man and...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Liquid Gold: Pain Doctors Soak Up Profits By Screening Urine For Drugs By Fred Schulte and Elizabeth Lucas Photos by Heidi de Marco NOVEMBER 6, 2017 The cups of urine travel by express mail to the Comprehensive Pain Specialists lab in an industrial park in Brentwood,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm584970.htm For Immediate Release November 14, 2017 Summary The FDA has issued a public health advisory related to mounting concerns regarding risks associated with the use of kratom. Statement The FDA is...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/11/13/563281808/brain-scientists-look-beyond-opioids-to-conquer-pain Jon Hamilton Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images The goal is simple: a drug that can relieve chronic pain without causing addiction. But achieving that goal...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32812-X/fulltext?elsca1=tlxpr Summary Background Extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX), an opioid antagonist, and sublingual buprenorphine-naloxone (BUP-NX), a partial opioid agonist, are...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/136/Suppl_1/A14066 Marin Nishimura, Janet Ma, Isac C Thomas, Sutton Fox, Avinash Toomu, Sean Mojaver, Derek Juang, Alan Maisel Abstract Introduction: Methamphetamine is one of the most commonly abused illegal substances in the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Functional & Integrative Medicine
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/ayahuasca-drug-amazon-tribes-psychedelic-hallucinogenic-depression-alcoholism-treatment-exter-a8052161.html Chris Baynes An ayahuasca ritual in La Calera, Colombia AFP/Getty Images A psychedelic drug brewed by indigenous South...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Behind the Rise in Alcoholism in Women by Monica Beyer by Monica Beyer Image: Getty Images/Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows Print Why women are at particular risk of developing an alcohol-use disorder? ShareTweetPin While alcohol use has been on the rise across the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/04/opioid-recovery-alone-chronic-illness Greg Williams Greg Williams. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images Saturday 4 November 2017 06.00 EDTLast modified on Sunday 5 November 2017 11.19 EST The opioid painkiller...
