Documents reveal subversive campaign to defeat legislationGENIUS – Feb. 9, 2018 - A Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group funded by pharmaceutical interests is spending big money to drum up a secretive citizen letter-writing campaign in Oregon to help kill a drug pricing tr... Read More...Feb 13 2018
FDA ramps up warnings calling kratom an ‘opioid’Is it or Isn’t it? – February 6, 2018 - The substance, which is imported from Southeast Asia and marketed as a supplement, has become increasingly popular among consumers looking for relief from pain, anxiety and depres... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Clinician’s Corner with Dr. Mel PohlMel Pohl, MD, DFASAM is a Board Certified Family Practitioner. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC). Dr. Pohl was a major force in developing LVRC’s Chronic Pain Recovery Program. He is cer... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Uruguay Legalized Marijuana and the Crime Rate Has PlummetedLock NO ONE Up! – Feb. 6, 2018 - Canada gets the headlines for its plan to legalize marijuana nationwide in 2018. So does anti-marijuana rhetoric from some officials in the Trump Administration. Meanwhile, in the South ... Read More...Feb 13 2018
GETTING OFFMEDIA: Book Review – Feb. 7, 2018 - One Woman’s Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction - Is sex addiction real? I was never particularly convinced, until one afternoon spent in a dark theater in Si Racha, Thailand, chan... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Major Psychiatric Disorders Have More In Common Than We ThoughtSelves Discovery – Feb. 9, 2018 - Major psychiatric disorders like autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder appear to have more in common than scientists thought they did. A new study finds that they have important si... Read More...Feb 13 2018
4/20 holiday a dangerous time on the roadDefensive Driving Day – Feb. 12, 2018 - America’s highways are decidedly less safe on April 20, a day when stoners publicly celebrate marijuana use. Why? Researchers report there’s an uptick in fatal traffic crashes on ... Read More...Feb 13 2018
At Home in the Dark: #8 – A NEW MODEL FOR ADDICTIONDiseased Model – Feb. 2018 - Ending the reign of the “Disease Model.” feat. Andrew Tatarsky, Julie Holland, Gabor Mate. Full Story @ YouTube.com... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Tandospirone Could Reverse Brain Deficits From Chronic AlcoholismWet Brain No More? – Feb. 10, 2018 - Excessive alcohol use can cause severe effects on the brain, leading to impaired cognition and thiamine deficiency. But in a study of five-week-old mice, researchers have uncovered a... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Drug Industry Wages Opioid Fight – Using an Anti-Addiction Ally!Follow The Money – Feb. 8, 2018 - “Stephen J. Ubl, the trade group’s chief executive, said in an interview that it was in the “tens of millions,” over multiple years, a heady influx of cash for a nonprofit group whose a... Read More...Feb 13 2018
To Cut Deaths, New York Considers Sanctioned Places to InjectCarry On Nurse – FEB. 9, 2018 - In 2016, the opioid epidemic claimed 1,374 lives in New York City. That’s roughly four drug overdose deaths each day. One death every seven hours. It’s a harrowing statistic that continue... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Pennsylvania’s drug treatment industry is growing rapidly and it raises concernsState of Greed? – Feb. 11, 2018 - Some advocates worry about proper oversight and the potential for financial abuse … Quiggle cited an extensive report on Philly.com last year on the acceptance of kickbacks by “recovery... Read More...Feb 13 2018
$7 Million verdict against treatment centerNobody’s Perfect – Feb. 6, 2018 - A California jury has awarded the biggest verdict to date against a controversial drug treatment company that also operates a facility in the Tampa Bay area. The I-Team has been reporti... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Can the Conventional Medical Profession Be Trusted?Do you? – February 06, 2018 - According to a recent article in The New York Times, growing distrust in the medical profession poses a threat to public health and safety.1 “Trust is crucial in the relationship between pa... Read More...Feb 13 2018
SF safe injection sites to be first in nation, opens July 1Florence Nightingale Lives – February 5, 2018 - The safe injection sites could mean fewer dirty needles on the streets, since they’d be collected inside. Public health officials believe that 85 percent of the city’s int... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Purdue to stop promoting opioids to doctors, cuts half of sales staffWill it Cut Deaths in Half? – February 10, 2018 - Purdue eventually acknowledged that its promotions exaggerated the drug’s safety and minimized the risks of addiction. After federal investigations, the company and thre... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books…You’ll Never Be Bored – Dec. 5, 2017 - A private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not kno... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Trump Says He Will Focus On Opioid Law Enforcement, Not TreatmentShoot the Shooters? – February 7, 2018 - More than three months after President Trump declared the nation’s opioid crisis a public health emergency, activists and health care providers say they’re still waiting for some... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: HappinessAt Harvard Too! – JAN. 26, 2018 - Administrators like Dr. Ahn expected significant enrollment for the class, but none anticipated it to be quite so large. Psychology and the Good Life, with 1,182 undergraduates currentl... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Kellyanne Ignoring Drug Experts as She Takes Over Opioid CrisisAmerica’s Drug Counselor – Feb. 6, 2018 - Under Conway’s leadership, efforts have amounted to the promise of a “just say no” campaign and a call for a border wall, which is aligned with Trump’s claim that the opioid cri... Read More...Feb 13 2018
Embattled Sovereign Health closing and consolidating centersAnother One Bites the Dust? – February 5, 2018 - Health Net, in a counter-suit filed a year ago, said Sharma and his companies were engaged in massive fraud. Within the span of a single year, Sovereign’s companies went ... Read More...Feb 13 2018
DEA launches new crackdown on pharmacies and opioid over-prescribersIt’s About Time – January 30, 2018 - The amount of prescription narcotics that have wound up with drug dealers and users during the past decade has been staggering. This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wh... Read More...Feb 6 2018
Jackass made pranksters into stars…A Look Back at the Backside – Feb. 4, 2018 - THE Jackass crew mesmerised and shocked the world with their hilarious and, at times, truly dangerous stunts. The likes of Johnny Knoxville, born Philip John Clapp Jr, became... Read More...Feb 6 2018
Company shipped nearly 21 million painkillers to town with 2,900 peopleKilling Americans for Fun And Profit? – Jan 30, 2018, - The state’s overdose death rate was 48.3 per 100,000 people that year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In comparison, the state’s homi... Read More...Feb 6 2018
DMX imprisoned as flight risk after positive drug testQuitting Ain’t Easy – Jan. 30, 2018 - Promises by DMX to continue drug rehabilitation and to be accompanied by a drug counselor during travel so he could continue his career “was a great big lie, a repeated lie as it tu... Read More...Feb 6 2018
Video game addiction ‘contributes to depression and anxiety’Also Relieves Depression and Anxiety – Jan. 31, 2018 - Addiction to video games can contribute to depression, anxiety and low self-esteem in players, affecting them both psychologically and physically, a study has sugge... Read More...Feb 6 2018
Stronger cannabis linked to rise in demand for drug treatmentGrowing Brains Are Delicate – Jan. 31, 2018 - Scientists at King’s College London drew on data from the Netherlands to show that admissions to specialist treatment centres rose when coffee shops sold increasingly more p... Read More...Feb 6 2018
Amid Opioid Epidemic, Drug Rehab Operators Eyeing Skilled Nursing FacilitiesPatients are Patients – January 31, 2018 - As millions of Americans grapple with opioid abuse disorders, skilled nursing facilities are attractive locations for drug treatment facilities. With more than 2 million people... Read More...Feb 6 2018
Mass planned for those affected by drug addictionSad Goodbyes – Feb. 1, 2018, - A Mass of Remembrance and Healing will be held Feb. 11 in Oakland for people who have been affected by the drug epidemic, Bishop David Zubik announced. The service begins at 2:30 p.m. at S... Read More...Feb 6 2018
From Crack Addict to America’s Most Celebrated ChefFree Taste – Jan. 31, 2018 - “I didn’t think I was a drug addict,” Solomonov told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in a recent podcast episode of The Atlantic Interview. Even after he dropped out of college, a decision f... Read More...Feb 6 2018