by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.wdrb.com/story/36822273/local-groups-raise-awareness-for-veteran-suicide-and-substance-abuse-on-veterans-day By Fallon Glick BARDSTOWN, Ky. (WDRB) – On this Veteran’s Day, our country’s heroes were honored in a different kind of way in Nelson...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/drug-enforcement-administration-collects-record-number-unused-pills-part-its-14th-0 Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2661581 Andrew K. Chang, MD, MS1; Polly E. Bijur, PhD2; David Esses, MD2; Douglas P. Barnaby, MD, MS2; Jesse Baer, MD2 Key Points Question Do any of 4 oral combination analgesics (3 with different opioids and 1...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2661569 Marcel O. Bonn-Miller, PhD1; Mallory J. E. Loflin, PhD2; Brian F. Thomas, PhD3; Jahan P. Marcu, PhD4; Travis Hyke, MS5;Ryan Vandrey, PhD6 There is growing consumer demand for cannabidiol (CBD), a...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/e1701682.full 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...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Women Suffering Opioid Addiction Experience Long Wait for Treatment JULIE WARREN The Tennessean recently published an article that highlighted “one unexpected effect of Tennessee’s opioid crisis”: women suffering from addiction are serving longer jail terms than their...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://wire.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/time-adopt-view-opioid-use-disorder-chronic-disease?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=Social_AMA&utm_term=1149733439&utm_content=prescription_drug_abuse_opioids&utm_campaign=article_alert Andis Robeznieks...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/world-traveling-coast-guard-veteran-offers-support-online-article-1.3610966 Neill Drake (COURTESY OF NEILL DRAKE) BYREUVEN BLAU NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, November 4, 2017, 1:08 PM It began with a Facebook post and led to...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-opioid-epidemic-strikes-unmarried-uneducated-worst/ An addict cooks heroin in order to inject it / Getty Images BY: Charles Fain Lehman November 1, 2017 5:00 am American adults with less education and who are divorced or unmarried...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/magazine/read/article/2017/11/02/asam-commends-the-president-s-commission-for-a-thorough-and-thoughtful-report-that-recommends-an-array-of-smart-and-actionable-interventions by ASAM Staff | November 2, 2017 Rockville,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.westword.com/marijuana/university-of-colorado-leading-study-on-how-marijuana-affects-adult-twins-9626611 THOMAS MITCHELL One of the challenges of the campaign to legalize cannabis across the country is the lack of benchmark data that compares social-health...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28953504 McClure FL1, Niles JK, Kaufman HW, Gudin J Abstract OBJECTIVES: Recently, more than 63% of the 52,404 drug overdose deaths in the United States involved heroin and opioid pain medications. More than 30% of opioid-related...
