Category: Addiction
Meth and opioid use during pregnancy rises, study
Amphetamine and opioid use in pregnancy has increased substantially over the last decade in the U.S., particularly in rural counties, a new study has found
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Kim Kardashian West and ecstasy: A reminder of the social dangers of the drug
“I did ecstasy once, and I got married … I did it again, I made a sex tape … like, everything bad would happen.”
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Methamphetamine Overdoses Surge
The number of people hospitalized because of amphetamine use is skyrocketing, but its resurgence has been overshadowed by the nation’s focus on opioids.
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How Fentanyl Changes the Opioid Equation
With lethal amounts of fentanyl showing up in heroin and other drugs throughout the country, active drug users are at a greater risk of dying than ever before
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Black Market For Suboxone Gives Some A Glimpse Of Recovery
A Suboxone black market exists in part because addiction treatment can be hard to find.
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Workers Overdose On The Job, And Employers Struggle To Respond
Many employers — ill-equipped or unwilling to confront an issue they are at a loss to handle — turn a blind eye to addiction within their workforce.
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Most Hospital ERs Won’t Treat Your Addiction. These Will.
Despite an overdose epidemic that is killing nearly 200 Americans a day, the vast majority of hospitals do not offer addiction treatment to ER patients.
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Binge drinking and blackouts in college
Binge drinking in the college brain may impair not only learning but memorizing. Deficiencies could make studying very difficult, and far less productive.
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Teen Xanax Abuse Is Surging
Addiction practitioners say they’re seeing a surge in the number of young patients who are hooked on Xanax. Many taking high daily doses of the drug.
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Opioid Overdose Deaths Rose in 2017 Driven by Fentanyl
Nearly 72,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2017, about 7 percent more than in the previous year, CDC report.
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For Addicted Women, the Year After Childbirth Is the Deadliest
The opioid epidemic has addicted nearly 3 million Americans and killing more than 350,000. But pregnant women and new moms are particularly vulnerable.
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Drink, drank, drunk: what happens when we drink alcohol in four short videos
The process of how ethanol gets from the glass into your brain is not straight forward. Let’s take a look at what happens after that first sip of alcohol.
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Anti-anxiety pills: The next drug epidemic?
Over-prescribing of drugs known as benzodiazepines or “benzos” is putting more people at risk of dependence on the pills.
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