After examining almost “three thousand mental health and addiction treatment organizations,” the National Council for Behavioral Health (NCBH) released a report last month showing a shortage of psychiatrists in the United States (Kim, 2017). ...
Earlier this month, the fifth annual You Lead Youth Conference was held in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and helped middle-schoolers learn leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in the hopes that they will help keep kids drug free ...
Access to medical marijuana has decreased the percentage of opioid-related deaths in the United States by 23 percent, and overdose-related hospitalizations have decreased by an average of 13 percent (Burch, 2017). These results come ...
Last week Congress sat in a hearing titled “Fentanyl: The Next Wave of the Opioid Epidemic,” which featured experts in the field talking about what can be done to curb the impact of fentanyl and ...
A study recently published in The International Journal of Drug Policy found that patients with chronic pain issues chose to use medical marijuana instead of prescribed opiates for their pain (Gaita, 2017). The study ...
Recovery advocates in New York and various lawmakers in California are proposing a tax be added to prescription opiates such as OxyContin, Vicodin, and Percocet to help fund treatment (De la Cretaz, 2017). Assemblyman ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that “opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 1999, accounting for a record 33,091 deaths in 2015” (Georgiades, 2017), which is a staggering statistic. Despite the high number ...
An Israeli study conducted in 2015 and published in The American Journal of Psychiatry found that buprenorphine, a drug normally used to treat opioid addiction, could also help decrease suicidal ideation (Yovell et al., 2015). ...
Emergency room (ER) visits related to heroin have been rising steadily in California among all age groups, but recent statistics have shown a large increase in millennials in particular. The Los Angeles Daily News ...
A study conducted by researchers at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University found that “men were 2.69 times more likely to visit an ER for illicit drug use than women, and 1.90 times ...
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