by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/468486-the-nations-response-to-addiction-moving-from-rescue-to-recovery Comment; Medication-Assisted Treatment works. It belongs in the penal system as well, proof is starting to come out to what those of us in the addiction...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, ISEAI
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3140.html Comment; People who use drugs in the United States spent on the order of $150 billion on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in 2016! That’s a LOT of “border walls” to slow the influx...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2737641 Comment; An ongoing necropsy of the opioid epidemic–yet we now know that most opioid abuse is due to “street” drugs, not prescribed pharmaceuticals. Lorraine...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/06/691746907/u-s-prosecutors-sue-to-stop-nation-s-first-supervised-injection-site Comment; I don’t think safe needle-exchange houses and places where illegal drugs are used, and in a sense promoted by the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/opioids/76669 Comment; The scourge continues, an incredibly expensive illness among those least able to pay for their care—while most likely to re-acquire the illness after “treatment” (that doesn’t include adequate...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/recovery-to-relapse-one-womans-heartbreaking-struggle-to-overcome-addiction/25226711 Comments; Relapse is actually a diagnostic criterion for addiction! <!– /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:”Cambria...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2018-09-08/wisconsin-man-forms-group-to-combat-heroin-addiction Comments; It’s great to see grass-roots efforts tackling this problem at the local street level. Jimpat Schweinsberg formed an online group...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
The costs of heroin and naloxone: a tragic snapshot of the opioid crisis Comment; What a GREAT solution to the exorbitant cost of Naloxone! By MICHAEL HUFFORD and DONALD S. BURKE Lethally potent street drugs like heroin are increasingly affordable and available, while...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/24/657894138/knocking-on-doors-to-get-opioid-overdose-survivors-into-treatment Comment; Preacher, Paramedic & Plain-clothes cop, what a team! Follow-up the day after an OD is a great idea as well. Recognition...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/heroin-fentanyl-remain-among-nations-highest-drug-threats-federal-report-says Comment; Drug epidemic morphs in response to outside pressures, less home-cooked meth, more imported, less opioids, more stimulants-which are more...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/10/study-despite-decline-in-prescriptions-opioid-deaths-skyrocketing-due-to-heroin-and-synthetic-drugs/ By Katie Zezima April 10, 2018 at 3:59 PM A Philadelphia drug user injects heroin in July 2017....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/01/14/571184153/on-the-hunt-for-poppies-in-mexico-americas-biggest-heroin-supplier James Frederick A Mexican soldier piles poppies for incineration near the town of Tlacotepec, in Guerrero state, Mexico. The army says it...