by Anthony Myers | Jun 22, 2017 | Drug Addiction
(Photo source: Pixabay) When Donald J. Trump was campaigning for office, he promised to fight the U.S. epidemic of opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths – from heroin, prescription medicines such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, and even deadlier super opioids fentanyl...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 21, 2017 | Drug Addiction
You know that something is bad when the pope comments on it: “Drugs have inflicted a deep wound on our society and ensnared many people in their web. Many victims have lost their freedom … enslaved by an addiction we could call ‘chemical.’” Pope Francis spoke these...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 20, 2017 | Drug Addiction
Despite increased precautions and growing amounts of information, thousands of people continue to die from this condition, more than 52,000 in the United States in 2015 alone. Is the condition, cancer, diabetes, or heart disease? No. Thousands of people die from those...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 19, 2017 | Drug Addiction
Drugs don’t just hurt the people using them. They can also hurt people trying to help others. For example, some drugs are so powerful, you don’t have to willingly take them to feel their effects. You can experience their effects just by touching such drugs by...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 16, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Recovery
One of the debates over substance use disorder treatment is whether including medication-assisted treatment is preferable to detox and therapy alone. The argument is that if an opioid addict takes methadone or buprenorphine (often prescribed under the brand name of...
by Anthony Myers | Jun 14, 2017 | Drug Addiction
Recently, we discussed the use of the pain relief treatment TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation). TENS involves using electrodes to zap electricity to the skin. Proponents of the treatment claim that the electric current in TENS stimulates nerves and...
