by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mapping-out-the-causes-of-suicide-in-teenagers-and-children/2017/08/22/c146cc6c-770e-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.297185c960b0 Children of the opioid crisis experience higher rates of trauma. Staff...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/08/10/peds.2017-0017 Isabelle Claudet, Sébastien Mouvier, Magali Labadie, Cécile Manin, Anne-Pascale Michard-Lenoir, Didier Eyer, Damien Dufour, for the Marie-Jeanne Study Group BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josh.12499/full#josh12499-note-0001 Kris Tunac De Pedro PhD,Tamika D. Gilreath PhDChristopher Jackson MS, Monica Christina Esqueda PhD BACKGROUND Transgender adolescents face tremendous social stress in families and schools,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/investigations/2017/08/25/opioid-heroin-tennessee-autopsy-oxycodone-opioid-crisis/590149001/ Anita Wadhwani, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee In 2015, state officials reported at least 1,451 men, women and children died from...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment William Haning, MD, DFASAM, DFAPA Of this week’s selections, three, and arguably parts of several more, relate specifically to the pediatric and ephebiatric populations. When...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_3192/ShortReport-3192.pdf Cathie E. Alderks, Ph.D. Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) are regulated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and are qualified to dispense the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/why-drug-policy-organization-needs-speak-out-against-white-supremacy By Megan Farrington The drug war is a tool of racial oppression. We see this in racial disparities in arrest and incarceration rates for drug offenses that exist even...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregon-defelonizing-drug-possession_us_5963b4a4e4b03f144e2c85d5 Nick Wing The new law applies to people found with small amounts of hard drugs like cocaine, heroin and LSD. But there are some caveats. Under a new law in Oregon, many...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
The cost of treating opioid overdose victims is skyrocketing By CASEY ROSS @byCaseyRoss The cost of treating opioid overdose victims in hospital intensive care units jumped 58 percent in a seven-year span, according to a new study that concludes increasingly sick...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-md-library-opioid-resources-0809-story.html Mina Haq and Jon KelveyThe Baltimore Sun Three local library systems are training staff in the use of the opioid overdose antidote naloxone and others are considering the move as more...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/4/359.full C. Holly A. Andrilla, MS⇑, Cynthia Coulthard, MPH and Eric H. Larson, PhD Opioid use disorder is a serious public health problem. Management with buprenorphine is an effective, office-based, medication-assisted treatment,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3326 Krista F Huybrechts, assistant professor of medicine1, Brian T Bateman, associate professor of anesthesiology1 2, Rishi J Desai, instructor in medicine1, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, professor of epidemiology3, Kathryn Rough,...
