by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/quality-practice/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment ASAM Weekly Editorial Comment William Haning, MD, DFASAM, DFAPA Editor-in-Chief July 4, 2017 A considerable dollop of this week’s contents bear on the effort to control the consequences of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
STAT forecast: Opioids could kill nearly 500,000 Americans in the next decade By MAX BLAU @maxblau JUNE 27, 2017 Opioids could kill nearly half a million people across America over the next decade as the crisis of addiction and overdose accelerates. Deaths from...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-sex-addiction_us_59278f14e4b01b9a5937c653 Livia Gershon The truth is, psychiatrists now generally don’t consider sexual addiction to be a real disorder. The American Psychiatric Association left it out of the latest edition...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/imprisoning-drug-offenders-doesn-t-impact-use-study-says-n774346 Jon Schuppe Sending more people to prison for drug offenses won’t have an effect on drug use and deaths, according to a new analysis released this week....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/population-health/addiction-medicine-experts-push-back-against-ahca-s-medicaid-cuts-at-first-opioid by Paige Minemyer Much of the talk at the first meeting of the Trump administration’s commission on opioids centered on a key topic:...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.7b03334 Paul T. Bremer† , Joel E. Schlosburg‡, Matthew L. Banks‡, Floyd. F. Steele‡, Bin Zhou†, Justin L. Poklis‡, and Kim D. Janda* Heroin is a highly abused opioid and incurs a significant detriment to society worldwide. In...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2632431 Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, MS1,2,3,4; J. Frank Wharam, MB, BCh, BAO, MPH5,6; Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD4,7; et al Key Points Question How often do youth with opioid use disorder receive...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/2017/06000/Predictive_Validity_of_Outpatient_Follow_up_After.7.aspx Schmidt, Eric M. PhD; Gupta, Shalini MS; Bowe, Thomas PhD; Ellerbe, Laura S. MS; Phelps, Tyler E. MLIS, MS; Finney, John W. PhD; Humphreys,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/americas-new-tobacco-crisis-the-rich-stopped-smoking-the-poor-didnt/2017/06/13/a63b42ba-4c8c-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.e636ea75cecd By William Wan June 13 NBA This has been my experience as well. Even teens...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Recovery On The Reservation: Montana Sisters Help Peers Stop Using Drugs Nora Saks, Montana Public Radio There’s a narrative about the meth epidemic in Montana that says the state tackled the problem in the 2000s yet it’s back with a vengeance because of super labs...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/grassroots-activists-are-leading-the-way-on-the-addiction-crisis_us_593a0a93e4b014ae8c69df33 Ryan Hampton, Contributor On Thursday, the three major television networks suspended their daytime programming to broadcast the testimony...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/lawsuit-pharmaceutical-companies-opioids/529020/ ALANA SEMUELS Sam Quinones, the author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, Brought this point up forcefully, eloquently. It started about a...
