Regardless of the often-misinformed idea that the opioid epidemic is nothing more than media fear mongering, the fact of the matter is that overdoses have become such major part of the United States that it is actually having an impact on our national life expectancy. With over 70,000 people dying due to overdoses in 2017,…
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…
Although the use of opioid antagonists like suboxone or naloxone proving to be incredibly effective for many of its users, there is still a large contingent of people who have some serious issues with these medicines. Certainly, when you look at the situation as a whole and only see these meds being used as the…
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…