Attending Treatment During the Pandemic Many thousands of people right now are weighing the decision of staying home because of COVID-19 and seeking treatment for their addiction. Despite the...
Heroin Addiction Expert Says There is an “Even Bigger Crisis” Than Opioid Addiction In 2015, Florida’s Manatee County recorded 57 fatal drug overdoses. At the time, that level was...
Construction Workers Most Likely to Use Opioids, Cocaine Researchers at the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at NYU College of Global Public Health have released the...
With the opioid crisis taking up so much space in popular media, it’s been easy to forget about other illicit drugs affecting people’s lives. In Colorado, methamphetamine (meth) use...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing that rules for opioid manufacturers be tightened to make new drugs less addictive. The Agency’s Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless withdrew...
An international team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that young adults who are at risk for addiction show distinct differences in an important region...
Can You Get Addicted to Marijuana? When a person thinks about substance abuse and addiction, the idea of someone who addicted to marijuana is usually not the first thing...
In spite of the current opioid crisis that has been making headlines on a regular basis, Emergency Room (ER) doctors and staff have been missing opportunities to refer overdose...
The opioid epidemic has triggered a hardship that most people likely haven’t thought of: A higher number of donated organs are infected with the hepatitis C virus. Dr. Winston...
