A volunteer program in Maine—which has already been in effect in a couple towns in Massachusetts—helps addicts find recovery, aided by the police and recovery coaches. This initiative encourages addicts to walk into a ...
Last month the army revised their drug and alcohol program by moving it under a division with medical expertise, and not the Installation Management Command. Army Secretary John McHugh has dictated that the drug ...
A study from the UK’s Royal Free Hospital has concluded that stopping alcohol consumption for a month has incredible benefits for a person’s health. The study examined 102 healthy patients who participated in a ...
Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed several bills that could regulate the medical marijuana industry in his state. The bills addressed several issues, including “conflict between law enforcement and the pot industry . ...
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that one in four homeless veterans (25 percent) were dismissed from the military for either alcoholism or drug use (Lavitt, 2015). ...
The British Drinkaware website now features a “Unit and Calorie Calculator” application that allows users to see how many calories they are consuming when they drink alcohol. The Unit and Calorie Counter requires users ...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a plan to release six thousand nonviolent drug offenders from prison in one of the “single largest discharges of inmates from federal prisons in American history” (Siegel, ...
Both the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) have announced their support of a buprenorphine training program for doctor’s offices called “BupPractice.” BupPractice provides training by ...
The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) released a statement calling for all schools to have naloxone—the drug that can reverse an opioid overdose—on hand. This year only five states have passed laws on ...
Salvia is known in the US as an abused substance because of its hallucinogenic properties, but the Mazatec people in Oaxaca, Mexico have used it for years as medicine for arthritis, inflammation, headaches, and even ...
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