by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.fox25boston.com/news/hidden-illness-bacterial-infection-adding-to-opioid-epidemic-death-toll/729892751 BOSTON — It is the epidemic behind the epidemic. A killer condition that takes its victims in sometimes brutal...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/cix768/4093369/The-effect-of-female-sex-on-hepatitis-C-incidence?guestAccessKey=6e8a6687-4595-40cb-8d6e-ad30d700f64c#95549940 Aryan Esmaeili Ali Mirzazadeh Meghan D Morris Behzad Hajarizadeh Henry S SacksLisa...
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...
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://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...
