Washington State recently passed a law that provides Twelve Step sponsors with the same kind of court protection given to doctors and attorneys, despite a veto from Governor Jay Inslee. The law (SB 6498) ...
St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey has implemented a program called “Alternatives to Opiates” (ALTO) with great success. In the ALTO program, doctors use nonopioid alternative treatments for patients, including “nonopioid ...
Just yesterday the federal government published the first-ever “national standards for prescription painkillers” in an attempt to subvert the steadily increasing drug epidemic in the US (Tavernise, 2016). The guidelines have been in development ...
Legislators in the Virginia House and Senate passed “a bill that will allow production and distribution of cannabis oils in the state,” but only for use by people with unmanageable epilepsy (Kim, 2016). The ...
MDMA, also known as “molly,” as “ecstasy,” and as a popular club drug, has been undergoing clinical trials to assess its effectiveness in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Current clinical trials have been so ...
Several months ago, Frances Harding, the director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), wrote an article about the measures taken by American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes to address youth substance abuse. ...
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) are working on a vaccine that can block the effects of synthetic opioids, according to a study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition last month (Wilkerson, 2016). ...
In September of 2015, CVS Pharmacies announced that it would be expanding access to Narcan, the overdose antidote, in order to fight growing rates of overdose deaths across the country. At the time of ...
In a town hall meeting before the New Hampshire Primary last month, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stated that she wanted to bring marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II in order to ...
Scientists at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana are working with endormorphins—a chemical produced within the body that “affect a variety of physical and mental functions that are related to pain”—to ...
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