by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/treating-heroin-addiction-with-heroin-what-you-need-to-know-w494829 Annamarya Scaccia European programs offer medical-grade heroin for users to inject under strict supervision, and it’s helping – so why won’t it...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57293#.WZGu6lF95Pb UN Newsspoke to Mr. Sumyai, a national of Thailand, during his recent visit to UN Headquarters. According to the INCB, only one in five women addicted to drugs are able to access treatment facilities....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/emerging-drug-trends/widening-lens-opioid-crisis Overview The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid crisis, which is receiving attention as a top public health priority. Between 1999 and 2014, drug overdose...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Faye Flam at fflam1@bloomberg.nethttps://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-21/neuroscience-offers-insights-into-the-opioid-epidemic To contact the author of this story: Addiction changes the brain in lasting ways, and some brains are more vulnerable than others....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31045-0/fulltext?dgcid=etoc-edschoice_email_aug5 Dr Annie Herbert, PhDCorrespondence information about the author Dr Annie HerbertEmail the author Dr Annie Herbert, Prof Ruth Gilbert, MD, Prof David...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1614835#t=article Walter K. Kraft, M.D., Susan C. Adeniyi-Jones, M.D., Inna Chervoneva, Ph.D., Jay S. Greenspan, M.D., Diane Abatemarco, Ph.D., Karol Kaltenbach, Ph.D., and Michelle E. Ehrlich, M.D. N Engl J Med 2017;...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jul/28/heroin-is-very-good-at-getting-rid-of-all-my-problems-drugs-and-sexism-in-india Sophie Cousins fter selling heroin on the streets all morning, former school teacher Jenny is tired and in...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/eastside/internet-has-put-a-spotlight-on-sex-addiction/ By Lynn Thompson Each week in his Bellevue counseling office, Bill Lennon sees 13 groups of eight men, all seeking help for compulsive sexual behavior. Such behavior can...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://newsok.com/article/5557365 by Graham Lee Brewer TULSA — More than 100 pills were sold for every adult in the Cherokee Nation’s tribal lands in 2015, prosecutors for the country’s second-largest tribe wrote in an affidavit filed Friday in U.S....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/28/540012363/fda-proposes-cutting-nicotine-amounts-in-cigarettes Bill Chappell Nicotine will now be at the center of the Food and Drug Administration’s effort to regulate tobacco, the agency said, announcing that it...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/2017/07000/Patterns_of_Opioid_Prescription_and_Use_After.5.aspx Bateman, Brian T. MD, MSc; Cole, Naida M. MD; Maeda, Ayumi MD; Burns, Sara M. MS; Houle, Timothy T. PhD; Huybrechts, Krista F. MS, PhD; Clancy, Caitlin R. BA;...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://annals.org/aim/article/2643842/patient-outcomes-dose-reduction-discontinuation-long-term-opioid-therapy-systematic Joseph W. Frank, MD, MPH; Travis I. Lovejoy, PhD, MPH; William C. Becker, MD; Benjamin J. Morasco, PhD; Christopher J. Koenig, PhD; Lilian...
