by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.kalw.org/post/east-bay-doctor-brings-opioid-addiction-treatment-streets#stream/0 Comment; God Bless Dr Mega! I cannot even imagine how difficult it is to practice medicine that way CrosscurrentsTweetShareGoogle+Email Dr. Joseph Mega and his team operate...
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://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://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2714693 Comment; Primary care does an inadequate job of screening for alcoholism which affects 6% patients, a relatively small amount. Pay adequately for this service! E. Jennifer Edelman, MD,...
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
https://www.asam.org/resources/publications/asam-weekly/asam-weekly-editorial-comment Mortality, Opioids & Tobacco In an editorial by Ilana Richman and Harlan Krumholz in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA Online...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db294.htm Holly Hedegaard, M.D., Margaret Warner, Ph.D., and Arialdi M. Miniño, M.P.H. Key findings Data from the National Vital Statistics System, Mortality In 2016, there were more than 63,600 drug overdose deaths...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002396 Tara Gomes , David N. Juurlink, Tony Antoniou, Muhammad M. Mamdani, J. Michael Paterson, Wim van den Brink Published: October 3, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002396 References...
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...