by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.addictionpro.com/article/medications/new-approach-drug-development-could-give-rise-cocaine-treatment?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AddictionProfessionalMagazine+%28Addiction+Professional+Magazine%29 Gary A. Enos,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Spirituality & Catholicism
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317809.php Catharine Paddock PhD A new study concludes that even moderate alcohol consumption is linked to a raised risk of faster decline in brain health and mental function. The researchers say that their findings support the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
The AP Learns to Talk About Addiction. Will Other Media Follow? 06.06.2017 / BY Maia Szalavitz FOR YEARS, people with addiction have wondered when the media would recognize our condition as a medical problem, not a moral one — when they would stop reducing us to mere...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm562401.htm Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requested that Endo Pharmaceuticals remove its opioid pain medication, reformulated Opana ER (oxymorphone hydrochloride), from the market. After...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/violence-is-soaring-in-the-mexican-towns-that-feed-americas-heroin-habit/?utm_term=.c3b21911cfa4 Story by Joshua Partlow May 30, 2017 TELOLOAPAN, MEXICO — In this skittish town on Mexico’s heroin highway, civilians...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/06/01/naloxone-for-police-dogs June 01, 2017 By Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press Massachusetts State Police started carrying naloxone for their K-9s in March. Police in Hartford, Connecticut, started in January. Police dogs simply...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Spirituality & Catholicism
It’s time to recognize mental health as essential to physical health By JOHN CAMPO MAY 31, 2017 T he human brain is a wonder. Through folds of tissue and pulses of electricity, it lets us perceive, attempt to understand, and shape the world around us. As science...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379504 Cheatle MD1, Gallagher RM2,3, O’Brien CP1. This prospective study suggests that patients without a recent or prior history of substance use disorder who were prescribed primarily short-acting opioids in low doses for...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/report_2740/ShortReport-2740.html Rachel N. Lipari, Ph.D., and Struther L. Van Horn, M.A In 2014, 3.3 percent of people aged 12 or older (an estimated 8.7 million people) used smokeless tobacco in the past month. Past...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html?_r=1 By JOSH KATZ JUNE 5, 2017 New data compiled from hundreds of health agencies reveals the extent of the drug overdose epidemic last year....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/quality-practice/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment William Haning, MD, DFASAM, DFAPA Editor-in-Chief June 13, 2017 To provide balance to this week’s excellent technical and policy content, we remark the passing of an anniversary on...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1706626#t=article Nora D. Volkow, M.D., and Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. May 31, 2017DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr1706626 Opioid misuse and addiction is an ongoing and rapidly evolving public health crisis, requiring innovative...
