Addiction

“The opioid epidemic has become so severe it’s considered a national public health emergency.” Addiction to prescription painkillers, such as oxycodone and morphine, has contributed… Read More »Growing Opioid Epidemic Forcing More Children into Foster Care

By John Rosengren, AARP Bulletin, June 2017 AMERICANS OVER 50 are using narcotic pain pills in surprisingly high numbers, and many are becoming addicted. While… Read More »America’s Addiction to Pain Pills

Although two federal agencies gave several hundred nurse practitioners and physician assistants the right to prescribe a life-saving medication to help treat opioid withdrawal, dependence,… Read More »Nurse Practitioners Blocked from Prescribing Buprenorphine by State Scope of Practice Laws

What’s the relationship between drug use and viral infections? Drug use increases risk for getting or passing on viral infections because certain viruses can spread… Read More »Drug Use and Viral Infections (HIV, Hepatitis)

By: Jefferey Fiorentino If there was ever a drug designed to wreak havoc – this is it! 5 milligrams (about 1/16th the size of a… Read More »Carfentanil: The Elephant Sedative Killing People

By Kristance Harlow I began with blacking out by accident but by the end I wanted to get to that place. Woman lying in bed,… Read More »Denial and Blackouts: A Vicious Cycle

It was like a scene out of a zombie movie, one witness told a local news reporter recently in New York City. Another just called… Read More »K2 (Synthetic Cannabinoids) Sends 130 People to New York Hospitals Over a 3-Day Period