by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/physician-groups-praise-panel-passage-bill-end-prior-authorization Comment; Ending Prior Authorizations for opioid treatment medications is a great start. We REALLY need to end Prior Authoriazations for ALL...
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.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18174768/trump-wall-opioid-epidemic-heroin Comment; The writer makes statements that don’t strike me as believable, essentially that a wall won’t impact the flow of illegal drugs into the country–that...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181129162649.htm Comment; Karma at work. Mexican cartels have been pushing their poison over our border, now our border is about to become sealed as opioids become more available to Mexicans. Opioid use in Mexico has been...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/11/20/18096123/opioid-epidemic-vermont-needle-exchange-buprenorphine Comment; I disagree with needle replacement programs; believe in 12 step programs, but admit that not everybody is ready to quit. By German...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.apnews.com/2bf839f545ca4ed98637c1a44ef854ec Comment; The Infrastructure of Care originated by Obama and expanded by Trump seems to be helping! RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and CARLA K. JOHNSONOctober 23, 2018 FILE – In this June 26, 2018...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
Workers Overdose On The Job, And Employers Struggle To Respond Comment; It’s unfortunately all to rare that a union or any other organization would take such a proactive stance on the problem in this epidemic. God Bless Them! Jimmy Sullivan has been a bricklayer for...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/addictions/75253 It’s nice to see that the author can clearly identify many of the problems. Things will work better for us when our legislative bodies do so by Shannon Firth,Washington Correspondent, MedPage TodaySeptember 21,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.aafp.org/news/2018-congress-fmx/20181016fmx-opioids.html Comments; This panel in a meeting of family physicians is a good way to reach out to the very physicians who need to become more comfortable with the idea of helping; “these people are already your...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/10/05/653360644/addiction-treatment-gap-is-driving-a-black-market-for-suboxone?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social Comment; I have no idea how many of my patients on buprenorphine...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/2/17927864/safe-injection-site-trump-jerry-brown-california Comment; I’m not convinced that “safe injection sites” are actually safe. I think Medication-Assisted Treatment is a MUCH better way to go with a ‘carrot &...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://time.com/5413761/beautiful-boy-film/?xid=tcoshare Comment; It’s such a difficult disease to treat—so many times I thought a patient had no chance; “one foot in the grave, another on a banana peel”, then they’d come in for a routine visit and it was evident that...