Emergency rooms throughout the country have recently started cutting back on the number of days’ worth of painkillers are prescribed to patients. Instead of the previously standard seven days,...
A new study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health revealed a major problem with prescribing practices in several states throughout the country. It was...
Governor Doug Ducey has sent a letter to the Arizona Medical Board and the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners making a push to have all Arizona doctors complete a...
Information recently presented by the American Heart Association shows that marijuana use increases a person’s chance of experiencing heart problems known as stress cardiomyopathy. Although the condition is not...
Despite the rising acceptance of marijuana in a few states, researchers are sounding the alarm that the drug is not as safe as some may think. A recent study,...
Several years ago stories of mass overdoses and tainted heroin would have shocked the nation. Nowadays, these stories are becoming too commonplace. While laws and regulations are making prescription...
Last week the Obama Administration shared the news about $53 million in additional funding to address opioid dependency and overdoses by expanding availability and use of naloxone, which is...
A new vaccine targeting cocaine addiction has just moved on to its next phase of research and has been granted permission to perform a study using human patients. A...
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have found that people who are dependent on opiates are much more likely to require additional medical services than...