Opiates | Appalachian Wellness

The Social Life of Opioids New studies strengthen ties between loss, pain and drug use

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-social-life-of-opioids/ By Maia Szalavit In the story of America’s opioid crisis a recent tripling in prescriptions of the painkillers is generally portrayed as the villain. Researchers and policy makers have paid far...

I was pregnant while addicted to heroin. Methadone saved my baby’s life. The stigma and shame of addiction dominated my pregnancy.

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/8/9/16119194/methadone-pregnancy-heroin-opiates Updated by Elizabeth Brico She wouldn’t stop crying. Lying in her crib in the NICU, her tiny body clenched into a ball, she let out a shrill, eerie wail that no infant should ever...

Cherokee Nation: 107 opioid pills per adult were sold in tribe’s district in 2015

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

http://newsok.com/article/5557365 by Graham Lee Brewer TULSA — More than 100 pills were sold for every adult in the Cherokee Nation’s tribal lands in 2015, prosecutors for the country’s second-largest tribe wrote in an affidavit filed Friday in U.S....

Low Risk of Producing an Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care by Prescribing Opioids to Prescreened Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain.

by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28379504 Cheatle MD1, Gallagher RM2,3, O’Brien CP1. This prospective study suggests that patients without a recent or prior history of substance use disorder who were prescribed primarily short-acting opioids in low doses for...