In May of 2016, the FDA announced an exciting new technology to fight opioid addiction. It sounds like science fiction, but doctors have developed an implant to deliver low-level measured doses of a drug used to wean a person off dependence on opioids. Who It's For This implant is called Probuphine. It is used in ... Read More
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Xanax and Opioids Prove Deadly and Popular in Illinois
The deathly combination of opioids and benzodiazepines, the class of drugs Xanax, Valium and other drugs fall under, has proven to be popular with partygoers. Where once heroin or ecstasy would have been reigning supreme, partiers are instead turning to prescriptions with relaxing effects. However, Cook County, IL, ... Read More
Can Babies be Born Addicted to Opioids?
Yes. They can and they unfortunately are. In West Virginia’s Cabell County-Huntington Hospital alone each day may see up to five babies born addicted. In a year, that hospital delivers 2,900 babies and a full fifth of them have been exposed to controlled substances in the womb. Up to 400 of these babies may need ... Read More
Jails Serving as Makeshift Drug Detox Centers Due To Heroin and Opioid Crisis
Some smaller jails in Louisiana have been having to pull double-duty as more and more arrestees suffer from heroin and opiates withdrawal symptoms. Nearly two of three sentenced inmates in jail from 2007 to 2009 met the criteria for drug dependence, and the numbers can only be expected to go up with the crisis. A ... Read More
The $200 Million Promised by NY to Treat Opioid Crisis is Misleading
Although the governor of New York recently said that they will be funneling $200 million into fighting the state’s opioid crisis, that statement is far less impressive than it originally sounds. While the announcement makes it seem like NY would be putting an additional $200 million toward the opioid crisis, they’ll ... Read More
Debating the Use of Opioids for Opioid Addiction Treatment
Many within the rehab community are concerned with the notion that opioid withdrawal symptoms are controlled with the use of additional opioids. The practice can work well to keep people from suffering some of the worst of those symptoms, but it is coming under criticism from a number of people within the community. ... Read More
Xanax with Opioids Makes for a Deadly Combination
If you or someone you know is addicted to or abusing both Xanax (or any other benzodiazepine) and a narcotic opioid painkiller (like oxycodone, methadone, Tramadol, and others), you can pretty much forget about having to suffer through opioid or Xanax withdrawal symptoms That’s because taking those two types of drugs ... Read More
Opioid Addiction And How It Changes The Brain
During a Senate hearing earlier in the year, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander managed to get to the heart of a complicated question: Why are we prescribing mostly opioids to fix opioid addiction? The answer Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Walter Koroshetz, director of the National ... Read More