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 | Sep 14, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse, Prescription drug abuse
Recent news stories, and stories going back several years, discuss pill mills and efforts by law enforcement to crack down on these facilities. What are pill mills though, and do they contribute to prescription drug abuse? These are physicians, clinics, and pharmacy...
by Valiant | Aug 24, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Prescription drug abuse
The epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse has medical professionals, law enforcement, and legislators across North America trying to find ways to fight this type of substance abuse. Some places like Florida have enacted tough laws to try and lower the rate of...
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...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Drug abuse, Prescription drug abuse
According to the study almost half of all the fatal narcotic painkiller overdose cases in the USA involved patients on Medicaid, a government funded health program, and these patients used multiple pharmacies to fill prescriptions. Using more than one pharmacy at the...
by Valiant | Jul 30, 2015 | Drug abuse, medical studies, Prescription drug abuse
Mayo Clinic researchers recently studied the percentage of patients who received an opioid pain medication for the very first time who went on to long term prescriptions, abuse of the medications, or addiction. The answer was an astonishing 25%, or 1 in 4 patients....
