Tag Archives: Opioids

Tuesday, December 18th, 2018

BEWARE: The Reemergence of U-47700 in the Club Scene Is Killing Our Youth

In 2015, there were over 33,000 opioid-related deaths in the United States, according to NCBI. While most people know of the dangers of heroin and prescription opioid painkiller abuse,...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

The Truth About Marijuana Use and the Potential for Addiction

Many Americans mistakenly believe it isn’t possible for a person to become addicted to marijuana, but this is simply untrue. Marijuana abuse does not display the same physical signs...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2018

How Did the Opioid Epidemic Start? DEA Reports Suggest the Epidemic Began in Florida

DEA reports, and an exclusive investigation from Florida newspaper The Palm Beach Post, suggest that the opioid epidemic in the United States began in Florida in the early 2000s,...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2018

New York Doctors Prescribing Dangerous Opioids Received Perks from Pharmaceutical Companies

The report establishes a possible conflict of interest between physicians and opioid manufacturers in the way opioid manufacturers incentivized doctors. The report admits that financial relationships do exist between...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016

Study Finds Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Still Under-Used

As one of the many joint efforts to combat the abuse and diversion of drugs like opioids, stimulants and benzodiazepines, states have created prescription drug monitoring programs to track...
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Monday, June 13th, 2016

Research Shows Majority of Patients Keep Their Painkillers

A recent study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health revealed that 66 percent of patients who had been prescribed opioids kept their unused pills....
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