Addiction Treatment Got Easier During Covid? MEDS FOR ALL – Dec. 13, 2022 - The changes, which appear to have broad support across medical organizations and addiction advocacy groups, underscore how sharply the addiction treatment landscape has shifted in... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineCoronavirusDec 20 2022Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
As Overdoses Soar in America, Clinicians are Prescribing More Addiction Medicine VIDEO – BIG PHARMA BIG HAPPY – Nov. 30, 2022 - The central Iowa clinic, owned by the nonprofit agency Primary Health Care, has offered buprenorphine since 2016. “We were kind of a unicorn in this part of the st... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDec 6 2022Drug Abuse and Addictionfentanylinterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
Medication Treatment for Addiction is Shorter for Black & Hispanic Addicts EVEN IN BLUE STATES – Nov. 9, 2022 - Researchers have long known that racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to be prescribed lifesaving addiction treatment options than white people. But even w... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 15 2022RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Easy Online Access Fed Mum’s Benzo Habit VIDEO – FROM CRAMPS TO AMPS – July 28, 2022 - “It got really bad,” said Sara, now 47, from Pembroke Dock. “Where a doctor might prescribe two painkillers, I would take six or eight in one dose, three or four ti... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 2 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionInterviewRecoveryRehab
Can a Monthly Injection Be the Key to Curbing Addiction? IS IT COVERED BY INSURANCE? – May 6, 2022 - Yet despite its promise, the use of injectable buprenorphine remains fairly limited, especially compared with other forms of addiction medication. Researchers have ye... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylHeroin AddictioninterventionMay 10 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehab
Federal Government Allows Program to Pay Substance Abusers to Staying Clean LISTEN – MONEY FOR NOTHING – Mar 10, 2022 - A new legal opinion from the Biden administration appears to clear the way for wider use of an underutilized harm reduction technique: paying people addicted to drug... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMarch 15 2022Mental Healthmethopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryRehabTrauma
We Must Revise Laws That Are Obstacles To Treatment LET THEM LIVE – Dec. 17, 2021 - Members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate have introduced bipartisan versions of the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment Act, legislation that would immediately ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDec 21 2021Drug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
DEA Tries to Stop Pharmacies Dispensing Suboxone DAMNED IF YOU DO... – Nov. 8, 2021 - The ramifications can be particularly acute in rural areas, where a dearth of addiction treatment providers, lack of transportation and stigma against these medications alr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 16 2021
ASAM Launches Free Buprenorphine …… Class MEDICATION MEDICINE DRUG – Sept. 13, 2021 - The introductory-level course, which expands on SAMHSA’s recently released Buprenorphine Quick Start Guide, is available on demand. The program offers practical c... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoverySept 21 2021
The War on Drugs Comes to the Doctor’s Office IT’S COMPLICATED – June 30, 2021 - On November 21, 2017, Ashley was at Joshi’s office for a telehealth therapy appointment with her psychologist when Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents arrived with a s... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 6 2021RecoveryWar On Drugs
Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK – Nov. 16, 2013 - “I didn’t know you could overdose on Suboxone,” Mr. Verrill said in an interview at a federal prison in Otisville, N.Y. “We were just a bunch of friends getting high and... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 4 2021RecoveryRehab
US lifts barriers to prescribing Suboxone GIVE PILLS A CHANCE – April 27, 2020 - Because of how opioids act on the brain, people dependent on them get sick if they stop using. Withdrawal can feel like a bad flu with cramping, sweating, anxiety and slee... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 4 2021opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecovery
Safer injection facilities are a much-needed weapon in the opioid epidemic DEATH REDUCTION – April 3, 2021 - Doctors or nurses based at SIFs provide treatment or give referrals to treatment for people with opioid addiction. In my work as a buprenorphine doctor, many of my patients say... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 6 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsRecovery
Eight Tennessee doctors charged in a Kentucky drug case LISTEN – WHAT’S UP DOC? PROFITS? – March 8, 2021 - At one time, 73 percent of the prescriptions from two Tennessee drug-treatment clinics involved in the case were filled in Kentucky, a federal agent said. T... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 16 2021Mental Health
As Overdoses Compete with Covid-19 Deaths, Feds Make It Easier to Prescribe Addiction Drugs While we all gently weep – Jan. 16, 2021 - On Thursday, HHS officials did just that: physicians are no longer required to have a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine — just a DEA registration that nearly every doc... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 19 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecovery
Report Calls for More Access to Take-Home Meds for Opioid Addictions Pandemic relief – Jan. 5, 2021 - “To get methadone, you have to show up in person every day and have people watch you take the medications,” Burke said. “Imagine if you had diabetes and you had to show up to g... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineCompassionCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 12 2021Mental Healthopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecovery
Racial treatment disparities mean many reluctant to seek help In this case, it is Black and White – Nov. 11, 2020 - Here’s some of what the research shows: They are disproportionately sent to jail or prison for addiction-related crimes. In the federal system,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthNov 24 2020OverdoseRecovery
Expert details psychiatrist’s role in tackling opioid crisis Doctors know... – Nov. 7, 2020 - Currently available medication-assisted treatments for opioid use disorder include methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. According to Sauvé, methadone allows those with opioi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictionmethNov 10 2020opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseRecovery
Even with a license to prescribe Buprenorphine many doctors are mum Prejudice, Knowledge, or Ignorance? – August 28, 2020 - As of 2018, only about 5% of physicians had a license to prescribe buprenorphine — despite increasing demand for the drug and an overdose crisis that killed 70,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediabuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictionSept 1 2020
Denver Reports 83% Increase in Drug Deaths in First Half of Year Dying for that Fentanyl Feeling – August 27, 2020 - Health officials are urging people to review the resources below and be proactive about preventing overdose deaths: Find out more about naloxone and where t... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictionfentanylopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseSept 1 2020
Now is the time to listen to science, especially when it comes to addiction Still No Silver Bullet – April 23, 2020 - The National Institutes of Health found that buprenorphine and methadone reduce overdose fatalities and relapse by as much as 59%. In 1995, amid epidemic opioid use, Fr... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApril 28 2020buprenorphineDrug Abuse and Addiction
What are methadone and buprenorphine? Good To Know – Feb. 2020 - You may have heard about methadone and buprenorphine, but what exactly are they and what do they do? Is medication assisted treatment really helpful for those with opioid dependency? Why ca... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineFeb 11 2020meth
District Attorney will no longer prosecute people for possession of buprenorphine Life Saving – January 29, 2020 - “Instead of expanding access to treatment and saving lives, government inaction has led to the creation of active street markets for these medications in Philadelphia and elsewhere,”... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineFeb 4 2020Heroin AddictionPhiladelphia