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July 24 2018
Patrick Kennedy Opioid Advocacy Group Secretly Funded by Pharmaceutical Company
From Last Year –
March 6, 2017 - Boston Globe Last week, NPQ covered a research study that showed that eight out of ten patient advocacy groups were funded by pharmaceutical companies, raising questions of conflict of ... Read More...
Cory Monteith’s mom says he was on pain medication for dental work before overdose death
Vico-doomed –
July 18, 2018 - Cory Monteith’s mother revealed the “Glee” actor was taking pain medications for “massive” dental work before he died of a heroin overdose in 2013. Ann McGregor told People she believes the... Read More...
$2 million gift establishes addictions research center at University of Kansas
To Find Out What, Drugs are Addictive? –
July 18, 2018 - The opioid crisis has brought heightened attention to the effects of addiction on individuals, families and communities. As health practitioners, politicians and ... Read More...
Jersey wants to expand medical marijuana program to treat opioid addiction
Marijuana Assisted Treatment –
July 17, 2018 - The New Jersey Department of Health wants to expand its medical marijuana program to include opioid addiction treatment. “Right now the consideration is adding it as an add... Read More...
Rising temperatures from climate change linked to rise in suicides
Mea Culpa –
July 23, 2018 - Rising temperatures linked to human-caused climate change could lead to increasing suicide rates in the U.S. and Mexico, a study released Monday suggests. By comparing historical temperature ... Read More...
‘Like a busy emergency room’: Calls to suicide crisis centers double since 2014
Please Ask for Help –
July 18, 2018 - The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saw calls double from 2014 to 2017, an increase that coincides with rising suicide rates in the USA. The lifeline answered more than 2 milli... Read More...
Is Forcing People With Substance Use Disorder Into Drug Treatment a Good Idea?
Anything is Possible –
July 19, 2018 - LESLIE AGANS WAS desperate. Her teenage son, Michael, had once been a good student and terrific ice hockey player in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. But he’d become a deceitful, unmoti... Read More...
Robin Williams Quit Drugs After John Belushi’s Death: ‘Cocaine for Me Was a Place to Hide’
Giants Gone Too Soon –
July 17, 2018 - Before his death by suicide in 2014, Robin Williams had a well-documented history of alcohol and cocaine dependence — a habit he kicked in 1982 after friend John Belushi’s overdose... Read More...
CBS News investigation: Recruiters pay vulnerable addicts to try experimental treatment to kick heroin
Naltrexone? MAT That Kills People? –
July 19, 2018 - A CBS News investigation has uncovered an industry of recruiters taking advantage of struggling addicts. The scheme lures addicts into getting a non-FDA approved Nal... Read More...
