by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2017/sep/28/hooked-how-pokies-are-designed-to-be-addictive Comment; This is a brief and very instructive, easily understood article on how slot machines are designed with regard to human behavior and...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/09/21/pharmacy-benefit-management/ Troyen Brennan, Richard Creager, and Jennifer M. Polinski The startling increase in the use of opioids has many causes. Two decades ago, health providers perceived that pain was under-treated, and...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-opioids-va-20170925-story.html PEGGY MCCARTHY Last winter, a veteran was revived with Narcan after he overdosed on heroin and collapsed just outside the doors of the VA hospital in West Haven. In 2016, another veteran at the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cvs-limit-opioid-prescriptions-7-day-supply-n803486 SHAMARD CHARLES, M.D. CVS Pharmacy will limit opioid prescriptions to a seven-day supply for certain conditions, becoming the first national retail chain to restrict how...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm576087.htm Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of the first mobile medical application to help treat substance use disorders (SUD). The Reset application is intended to be used...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Spirituality & Catholicism
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2654372 Deborah Dowell, MD, MPH1; Elizabeth Arias, PhD2; Kenneth Kochanek, MA2; et al Drug poisoning mortality more than doubled in the United States from 2000 to 2015; poisoning mortality involving opioids more...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.13974/full Clément Palpacuer,Renan Duprez,Alexandre Huneau,Clara Locher,Rémy Boussageon,Bruno Laviolle,Florian Naudet Abstract Background and Aims Pharmacologically controlled drinking in the treatment of alcohol...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/12/maryland-law-requires-colleges-educate-dangers-opioids By Nick Roll More than 2,000 people died of drug and alcohol overdoses in Maryland last year — a record number that is part of the nation’s opioid-abuse crisis....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-social-life-of-opioids/ By Maia Szalavit In the story of America’s opioid crisis a recent tripling in prescriptions of the painkillers is generally portrayed as the villain. Researchers and policy makers have paid far...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
The unintended consequences of Obamacare? By Printus LeBlanc The US is in the midst of a drug overdose epidemic, the principle killer drugs being opioid-based prescription drugs and heroin. The problem is so bad even, the liberal New York Times admits that drugs are...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Where have all the workers gone? An inquiry into the decline of the U.S. labor force participation rate Alan B. Krueger The increase in opioid prescriptions from 1999 to 2015 could account for about 20 percent of the observed decline in men’s labor force participation...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/09/13/civil-commitment-substance-treatment Deborah Becker closemore Share your experiences, and follow along with our reporters as they cover opioid use and treatment, by joining our Facebook group, “Living The Opioid...
