Acetyl fentanyl, a new drug that is making its way through the streets, has been noted as being fifteen times more potent than heroin. The drug is being mixed into street drugs and is oftentimes ...
Last month the Obama administration reclassified hydrocodone combination drugs into a category for medical substances with the highest potential for harm. This new change will be effective beginning in October. The reclassification will mean ...
A German study was recently published in the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking journal that stated women show the same symptoms of pornography addiction as men (Dwyer, 2014). The study examined 102 women, half ...
The Recovery Enhancement for Addiction Treatment Act, proposed by Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass), will allow doctors to treat more addicted patients and have more access to medication-assisted therapy (MAT). According to The Fix, “Current ...
In the summer issue of SAMHSA News, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) presented an article on e-cigarettes and the potential harm they can cause. The article mentioned a study conducted ...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) recently released a new Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) publication focusing on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The new TIP provides information on preventing alcohol-exposed pregnancies and ...
Last month, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released the Obama Administration’s 2014 National Drug Control Strategy, the new proposal for United States drug policy. According to the ONDCP, the Strategy outlines ...
A recent study published in the Journal of AffectiveDisorders concluded that people who have bipolar disorder and an alcohol or substance abuse problem are twice as likely to attempt suicide as other patients without that ...
According to an online survey funded by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), there is no real age limit for eating disorders. The survey reported that symptoms of an eating disorder were reported ...
Recently Mt. Sinai Medical Center published a new study that demonstrated how intravenous (IV) ketamine treatment can reduce the symptoms of those suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Lavitt, 2014). The proof-of-concept, double-blind, randomized, crossover ...
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