by Valiant | Oct 23, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, heroin use, Prescription drug abuse
The rate of opioid addiction in the USA and North America has skyrocketed in the last decade, and substance abuse treatment programs have not kept up with this pace. A new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study shows that only 1 in 5, or 20% of the...
by Valiant | Oct 9, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, heroin use, Prescription drug abuse
A recent study undertaken by Vanderbilt University researchers shows that babies who have neonatal abstinence syndrome have a risk of being readmitted to the hospital within the first month that is 2.5 times higher than healthy babies during the same period. This...
by Valiant | Oct 5, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, heroin use, Prescription drug abuse
The CDC recently declared that there was a national opioid epidemic, and addiction disorders that involve opioid based medications or opioid based street drugs like heroin tend to benefit from the use of certain medications as well as typical psychosocial treatments....
by Valiant | Oct 2, 2015 | Addiction treatment, heroin use
Heroin abuse carries a very real risk of overdose which can lead to death, but there is a possible solution that more law enforcement and emergency first responders are being trained to use. Naloxone is a drug that can counteract heroin in the system, reversing an...
by Valiant | Sep 28, 2015 | Addiction treatment, heroin use
Heroin addiction is a form of drug abuse that is becoming an epidemic across Canada and the USA, and this form of substance abuse can have deadly consequences. There are plenty of warnings and information available about the dangers of heroin and the highly addictive...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, heroin use, Prescription drug abuse
One of the biggest challenges that the medical community faces today is identifying the risk of opioid dependence and narcotic painkiller addiction in a patient. This may become easier than ever before thanks to a new study by an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic in...
