DEA Suspends Louisiana Pharmacy Distributor Over Suspicious Orders The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that it has issued and served a Suspension Order on Morris & Dickson Company. The...
The Importance of Medically Supervised Detox When an addiction sufferer realizes they have a drug or alcohol problem, the decision to stop using is a tremendous first step. However,...
Special Recovery Schools Help Teens Stay Clean Young people often seem to be at a disadvantage when trying to get off drugs. Less than half of addiction treatment centers...
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...
Length of Opioid Prescriptions and Opioid Addiction Every day, people who were only seeking a little pain relief unwittingly become addicted to opioids. Most get prescriptions from their doctors...
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...
The current opioid crisis is responsible for producing a new epidemic among teens and young adults. It’s a potentially-fatal bacterial heart infection called endocarditis. This condition is most commonly...
Who’s Going to Pay for the Opioid Crisis? If you were to ask most recovering heroin addicts about their past choices, they would probably say that they would have...