by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(19)31596-7?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2211124719315967%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Comment; The Striatum is a cluster of nerve cells below the forebrain involved in motor & reward...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743519302890?via%3Dihub Comment; Post-overdose care should include drug use disorder help as it is the time frame most likely to be effective in getting a user who nearly died to re-assess their life and what they...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2718627 Comment; Long term treatment with naltrexone seems to work as well for anxiety, depression & insomnia as combination buprenorphine/naloxone...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190107110837.htm Comment; Since 2000 there’s been a dramatic increase in both overdose & suicide, most of the overdose deaths & suicides involve opioids. It’s hard to determine suicide vs. accidental...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/a-look-at-how-the-opioid-crisis-has-affected-people-with-employer-coverage/#item-start By Cynthia Cox, Matthew Rae and Bradley Sawyer Kaiser Family Foundation With deaths from opioid overdose rising steeply in recent years,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment William Haning, MD, DFASAM, DFAPA Two weeks ago, Jan Hoffman in the New York Times reported on an impending CMS rule that proposed to tightly constrain prescribing of opioids. The...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/09/06/opioid-crisis-rape Martha Bebinger closemore In Cambridge, a woman named Kristin sits down on a stone bench to talk about a common, but rarely discussed injury during the opioid epidemic: rape. We’ve agreed to use just...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://kaiserhealthnews.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/opioidembargo-article.pdf Matthew A. Davis, MPH, PhD, Lewei A. Lin, MD, Haiyin Liu, MA, and Brian D. Sites, MD, MS Background: The extent to which adults with mental health disorders in the United States receive...
