by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.journalofsubstanceabusetreatment.com/article/S0740-5472(19)30250-8/fulltext Comment; Methamphetamine use is a risk factor for buprenorphine patients leaving the buprenorphine program and relapsing. The longer somebody is on BUP, the more likely they are to...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/11/02/meth-use-surges-stronger-cheaper-drugs-imported-mexico/4124765002/ Comment; “It’s not the pretty people”, Meth is a scourge that affects mainly the lower socioeconomic classes & areas with...
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://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/19/695690652/aspiring-doctors-seek-advanced-training-in-addiction-medicine Comment; It’s great that these residents in Family Medicine have such an easy avenue into addiction medicine fellowships. I learned in...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, Functional & Integrative Medicine
http://www.biomolther.org/journal/view.html?uid=1034&vmd=Full Comment: Epicatechin’s ability to protect the brain is pretty amazing, especially considering the various pathways it affects to do so Youra Kang1, Ji-Ha Lee1, Young Ho Seo1, Jung-Hee Jang2, Chul-Ho...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://consumer.healthday.com/pregnancy-information-29/pregnancy-risks-news-546/meth-opioid-use-in-pregnancy-on-the-rise-740133.html Comment; Doubling of stimulant addiction, opioid use increasing 5-fold, increased risk of death to Mom’s using stimulants and...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/steve-carell-timothe-chalamet-true-story-family-struggling/story?id=58934190 Comment; Addiction IS a disease, there are other aspects of it, but it’s truly an illness. ByPAULA FARIS, CLAIRE PEDERSEN, AUDE SOICHET ALLIE YANG Nov 5,...
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
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/136/Suppl_1/A14066 Marin Nishimura, Janet Ma, Isac C Thomas, Sutton Fox, Avinash Toomu, Sean Mojaver, Derek Juang, Alan Maisel Abstract Introduction: Methamphetamine is one of the most commonly abused illegal substances in the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment William Haning, MD, DFASAM, DFAPA Of this week’s selections, three, and arguably parts of several more, relate specifically to the pediatric and ephebiatric populations. When...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/quality-practice/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment William Haning, MD, DFASAM, DFAPA Editor-in-Chief For “…those following the SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Sets (TEDS) for substance use will protest that this...
