It’s no secret that the glamorous lives of celebrities are often tarnished just a bit with the stain of drug abuse. However, nu-metal star Jonathan Davis, lead singer of the band Korn, spoke in an interview with Forbes about his fight with Xanax addiction and alcohol. He started taking Xanax in order to get through ... Read More
Tampa Drug Crisis Causing Children to be Separated From Families
Manatee County in Florida has had a hard time with the opioid crisis, and an even harder set of decisions to make. The county is one of the leaders in the state for removing children from their families for drug crimes, with the rationale that the children will later be reunited in safer circumstances. This is not ... Read More
Purdue Pharma Internal Documents Show Intent to Create Addicts
Kaiser Health News has gathered years of budget documents and other records belonging to Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, and has released them to the public for viewing and perusal. During the early days of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, Purdue spent much time and effort promoting the drug to doctors, ... Read More
Researchers Investigate Possible Nanotechnology-Based Addiction Therapies
It seems difficult to imagine in the modern day, but the technology of the future is finally beginning to find its way to the real world. In an article in ACS Chemical Neuroscience, Morteza Mahmoudi, who is an instructor at the Department of Anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, as ... Read More
House Passes Law Making Drug Abuse Data More Public
The House of Representatives has made a major step forward in giving the public more information on just how bad the opioid crisis really is. The Indexing Narcotics, Fentanyl and Opioids Act compels the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) to create a online information resource that will combine all total public ... Read More
Study Finds 6 Areas of the Brain Associated With Drug Addiction
A scientific study conducted at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine found specific impairments in networks of the brain’s neurons that researchers tied to drug addiction behaviors. The study, published in the scientific journal Neuron, reviews over 100 studies of various neuroimaging to compare the results to a previous ... Read More
Children’s Addiction Treatment Nonprofit Helps Fund Rehab Program
Losing a relative to drugs is a hard thing, and it’s even harder when the relative is one’s own child. But instead of falling into despair, Brian and Lea Apostolakis funded Fighting for Alyssa (FFA), which raises money on behalf of the memory of their 21-year-old daughter, who wanted to become a drug abuse counselor. ... Read More
FDA Looks To Future Addiction Risks in the Post-Opioid Crisis World
The Food and Drug Administration has not had the easiest job in the last two or so years, but it would appear that the agency is still willing to take on new challenges. Officials in the FDA published a letter in The New England Journal of Medicine, warning of the dangers of non-opioid painkillers once opioid abuse is ... Read More