by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/bipolar-disorder/quetiapine-xr-effective-on-bipolar-disorder-with-co-occurring-sud/article/663798/ Florence Chaverneff, PhD It also works very well for insomnia, especially in substance use disorder patients. According to research...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rhode-island/articles/2017-05-17/4-insurers-to-end-pre-approval-process-for-addiction-meds PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island health insurance commissioner says the state’s four major health insurers will end a...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6610a1.htm?s_cid=mm6610a1_w Because long-term opioid use often begins with treatment of acute pain (1), in March 2016, the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain included recommendations for the duration of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(17)30073-5/fulltext Summary Background Mounting evidence suggests that laws and policies prohibiting illegal drug use could have a central role in shaping health outcomes among people who inject drugs...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://wire.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/training-tomorrow-s-physicians-help-reverse-opioid-epidemic?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=Social_AMA&utm_term=901219807&utm_content=other&utm_campaign=article_alert Communities in northeast Ohio are...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://people.com/human-interest/west-virginia-mom-struggle-opioid-addiction-pregnant/ At nearly a year old, Emma Hernandez has a mouthful of teeth and she doesn’t walk — she runs — sometimes while yelling “Mommy!” or “Uh-oh!” or another word in her toddler...
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
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, 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...