Speculations surrounding the sudden death of music icon Prince on April 21st continue to point to the probability that it was drug-related in some way. From his emergency landing...
Additional information emerged last week regarding the impact of prescription opioids in the workplace. More specifically, the study focused on the abuse of the drugs, who was most likely...
A recent study of patients taking prescription narcotics for chronic pain conditions focused on reducing the amount of drugs they were using. The research team, headed by Dr. Beth...
For many young adults, college is the first time where they really feel pressure to perform without having the necessary support system in place. Instead, expectations and responsibilities increase...
The main focus of lawmakers, medical professionals and educators regarding substance abuse has been on the opiate epidemic in the United States lately. For good reason too, because every...
Big news hit recently when CVS drug store became the first pharmacy to announce that they were going to be offering naloxone for sale without a prescription. The opioid...
When it comes to heroin abuse and prescription painkiller abuse, researchers have been trying to determine all the factors that connect the two, beyond the obvious similarity in being...
The medical community is immersed in the prescription painkiller epidemic in two ways. On the front end, doctors are often the ones prescribing the drugs like Oxycontin, Percocet and...
A recent article in the New York Times examined the death certificates of some 60 million Americans between 1999 and 2014, gathering the information from the Centers for Disease...