by Anthony Myers | Aug 16, 2017 | Drug Addiction
Recently, we discussed how the opioid epidemic is producing some unexpected results. Namely, we discussed how more and more people dying of drug overdoses are serving as organ donors. Maybe these donations can help eliminate some of the stigma surrounding drug...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 15, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Health and Wellness
The opioid/opiate epidemic is creating a ripple effect that touches many aspects of life. One of its most surprising effects might be its effect on severely sick individuals. Opioids (also known as opiates) are drugs that can relieve pain and include prescription...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 14, 2017 | Drug Addiction
On Friday, August 4, 2017, another interesting development relating to drugs occurred. On that day, a federal court in New York found fund manager Martin Shkreli guilty of three counts of fraud. He could spend up to twenty years for this conviction. According to the...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 11, 2017 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
Pain (Pixabay) Opioid abuse is epidemic, but what is the cause? Is it that the pharmaceutical companies oversold how nonaddictive they were, and people legitimately seeking pain relief accidentally became addicted? Or were they abused by recreational users trying to...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 10, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Recovery, Substance Abuse
Anti-drug poster from the Office of National Drug Control Policy circa 2000. (Wikimedia commons) The War on Drugs may be about to heat up again. Despite last year’s US Surgeon General’s report and the predominant finding by doctors and addiction specialists in general...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 9, 2017 | Drug Addiction
Yesterday, we talked about the dangers of unregulated, illegally produced alcohol. That’s not the only dangerous substance out there. Did you know that illegal substances might be even more dangerous than you think? For example, fentanyl is a drug that seems to be...
