Showing posts with label opioid addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opioid addiction. Show all posts
Monday, May 7, 2018

The Whitening of the Opioid Epidemic....

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I was reading the most recent copy of the Psychiatric News (May 4, 2018) when a story jumped off the page at me.  It was called ...
Friday, November 3, 2017

Another PSA On Pain, Opioids, and Addiction

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It turns out that Twitter is an inadequate forum for discussing the issue.  Twitter is an ideal format for discovering if a poste...
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Friday, August 25, 2017

Infection Disease Docs - Treating Addiction

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There was a very interesting commentary in this week's New England Journal of Medicine .  In it the authors describe a case from t...
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Saturday, June 3, 2017

Enhancing The Volkow-Collins Approach To The Opioid Epidemic

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Nora Volkow, MD - Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD - Director of the National Institu...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Minnesota Street Drug Bulletin - Carfentanil

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Opioids morphine (upper left) and hydrocodone (lower left) and synthetic opioids fentanyl (upper right) and carfentanil (lower right) ...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Why Buprenorphine Is No Panacea for Opioid Addiction - An Insider View

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That's right - I am an insider in the current opioid epidemic.  I only treat people with addictions.  I am licensed to prescribe bu...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

The Reality Of Burprenorphine Therapy

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It is increasingly popular for politicians and healthcare businesses to discuss their ideas about how to end the opioid epidemic that t...