Physicians Continue to Prescribe After Opioid Overdose
Abuse of control prescription drugs now exceeds abuse of all illegal drugs combined, except marijuana. Many of those in the addiction field believe that oxycontin is at the very heart of the vast...
View ArticleFinally, Action is Taken
On Tuesday, March 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took an important step in combatting the deadly prescription painkiller epidemic in the United States. In a first-time move, our...
View ArticleOpiate Addiction and Newborns
We write often about the epidemic of opiate abuse throughout our country. The mass addiction, broken families, the death toll rising. But one key group of victims that has seemingly gone by the wayside...
View ArticleNew Steps to Treat America’s Opiate Addiction
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune reported that the federal government intends to increase access to methadone and buprenorphine. These are drugs currently taken by hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleAmerican Doctors: Take The Pledge
The expression “it takes a village” is often bandied about; it is used to indicate how difficult it will be to accomplish a task. Today, the United States is in the grip of a very dangerous epidemic....
View ArticleOhio and the Opiate Crisis
In this blog, we often write about the issue of opiate addiction throughout our country. Most people know the problem is widespread and quite dire. Unfortunately, it is easy to become inured to...
View ArticleA Day at the Pool Becomes a Night at the Morgue
Heroin became a widely used drug in the 1960s, it seemed to drop off of the radar for a while, then returned with a vengeance via black tar heroin from Mexico. Today’s nationwide opiate addiction...
View ArticleThe Jewish Community Faces the Opiate Crisis
On the surface, an eating disorder and a substance use disorder may look quite different. One involves food while the other involves drugs or alcohol. Yet, they share one commonality that is immutable;...
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