Researchers at Florida Atlantic University recently took an in-depth look into chronic pain patients and how the genes of these 25,000 people inform addiction. In the research, they found that around 20 percent of patients indicate that they are going to end up addicted to the drugs. Through their work, they also came up with…
Although the story referenced below discusses the way that Pennsylvania found itself dealing with a very real and deadly opioid problem, it might still feel familiar to those living anywhere else in the nation. This drug and other opioids have caused problems all over the entire country, and many of the addictions and drug abuse…
When an opioid addiction strikes someone’s home, the entire focus, rightfully so, goes toward the addict themself and their individual substance use disorder. However, there is another side of the opioid epidemic that most of us probably haven’t put much thought into: addiction makes things pretty difficult for employers. In fact, the number of people…