A New You: Reinventing Yourself After Rehab Rehab is only the first step in recovering from drug addiction. Once you get back to your regular routine, you must dodge...
Myths of Opioid Addiction The news is bleak and the numbers are staggering. Opioid use in the United States has been on a sharp incline over the past two...
Med Conference: Buprenorphine Effective for Addiction Treatment Attendees at a presentation during Hospital Medicine 2018 learned that the drug buprenorphine is appropriate to prescribe for hospitalized patients with opioid...
Researchers at New York’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center have pinpointed a specific protein produced by the body’s immune system which may be responsible for a person becoming addicted to...
Legislators and other policy makers throughout the country continue their efforts to combat the drug epidemic in America, especially with regards to heroin and other opiates. For example, lawmakers...
Identifying the Issues Behind Addiction Many treatment centers focus only on addiction when they try to help people break the habit and reclaim control of their lives. Because addiction...
There continues to be a high demand for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction. To date, however, states like Ohio only haveabout two percent of doctors that have completed...
Kratom for opioid withdrawal: Does it work? In the war on drugs, there’s a war on a plant-based herbal supplement called kratom. Advocates swear by it as a pain...
Substance abuse and addiction are serious problems that affect millions of American adults every year. It can be difficult to know the correct plan of action to take when...