by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-dogs-jail-idUSKBN1872BO Kristina Hazelett had cats, birds and hamsters growing up, but she never knew much about dogs until she started serving a several-month jail sentence for drug possession. The 35-year-old inmate is part of a...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
How effective is medication-assisted treatment for addiction? Here’s the science Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price sparked a firestorm last week with his comments about medication-assisted treatment, saying that “if we’re just substituting one...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.academia.edu/32494686/The_Reasons_Behind_Prevalence_of_Captagon_Addiction_in_Jeddah_and_Community_Awareness_A_Questionnaire-Based_Study Captagon is the brand name of Fenethylline and it is a derivative of amphetamine. It was distributed as an over the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6618a3.htm?s_cid=mm6618a3_w Summary What is already known about this topic? Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection affects approximately 3.5 million persons in the United States, making it the most common bloodborne infection in the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/08/526523520/public-restrooms-become-ground-zero-in-the-opioid-epidemic “I know all the bathrooms that I can and can’t get high in,” says Eddie, 39, pausing in front of the shop’s plate glass...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to soon toughen rules on prosecuting drug crimes, according to people familiar with internal deliberations, in what would be a major rollback of Obama-era policies that would put his first big stamp on a Justice...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-gray-death-20170503-story.html It’s being called “gray death” — a new and dangerous opioid combo that underscores the ever-changing nature of the U.S. addictions epidemic. Investigators who...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1614835#t=article Buprenorphine was significantly more effective than morphine in reducing the duration of treatment, with a median between-group difference of 13 days in the intention-to-treat analysis. This difference...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j1550 Retention in methadone and buprenorphine treatment is associated with substantial reductions in the risk for all cause and overdose mortality in people dependent on opioids. The induction phase onto methadone treatment and the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
David Sheff https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/overcoming-addiction/201705/sobering-truth-about-addiction-treatment-in-america The drug treatment industry has problems. It DOES tend to take a “one size fits all” approach to what it offers. Anybody...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Functional & Integrative Medicine
CBD’s may be helpful for Autism Spectrum Disorders according to a recent article in USA Today This article in USA Today by Yardena Schwartz looks at research going on in Israel which shows promise of CBD’s (not the chemical THC that gets one...
