From Fortune. Click here to see the original article. By Natasha Back Today is World Mental Health Day, which aims to raise awareness about mental health issues around the world and mobilize efforts to support mental health. This year’s theme is mental health in the workplace, looking at how our workplace experience can be improved to promote mental […]
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Marijuana use is associated with an increased risk of prescription opioid misuse and use disorders
From NIH NIDA. To see the original article, click here. Science Spotlight New research suggests that marijuana users may be more likely than nonusers to misuse prescription opioids and develop prescription opioid use disorder. The study was conducted by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, […]
Mandatory Guidelines for Urine Testing Updated to Include Four Semi-Synthetic Opioids
From SAMHSA. To read the original press release, click here. Friday, September 29, 2017 New federal mandatory guidelines for workplace drug testing will become effective on October 1, 2017, and will include the authority to test for four semi-synthetic opioids: oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, and hydromorphone. These are prescription opioid pain medications that have commonly known […]
The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Years
From the NY Times. Click here to view original article and graphs. by Josh Katz The first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths in 2016 shows overdose deaths growing even faster than previously thought. Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths to […]
One In Eight American Adults Is an Alcoholic, Study Says
From the Washington Post. Click here to read the entire article. Alcoholism Is on the Rise by Christopher Ingraham A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate of alcohol use disorder, or what’s colloquially known as “alcoholism,” rose by a shocking 49 percent in the first decade of the 2000s. One […]
Multiple Drugs Found in MD Parolees – Opiates and/or Fentanyl
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Knowledge of HIV Status is on the Rise
From HIV.gov. To read the blog in it’s entirety, click here: by Richard Wolitski, Director, OHAIDP & Nathan Fecik, Public Health Advisor, OHAIDP According to guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we all should have been tested for HIV at least once in our lives. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) includes, as one of its […]
New digital press kit on the opioids crisis from NIH
From NIH: NIH has a new digital press kit on the opioids crisis, with information, images, and videos. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/opioids-digital-press-kit
What Is Addiction? A short video…
A short video from Addiction Policy Forum More than 21 million Americans suffer from addiction Or 1 in 7 people nationwide Overdose deaths claims 144 people each day 375 p/day including alcohol-related deaths Addiction effects tissue function in the brain Can hijack parts of the brain Addiction can be prevented Risk factors & protective factors […]
Why We Should Say Someone Is A ‘Person With An Addiction,’ Not An Addict
From NPR. To view the entire article, click here. by Maia Szalavitz For years, people with addiction have wondered when the media would recognize our condition as a medical problem, not a moral one — when they would stop reducing us to mere “addicts” and speak of us in the more respectful and accurate “person […]