PRESCRIPTION DRUG ADDICTION
The Most Precious and Invaluable Thing I Could Have Ever Gotten Back in My Life
I am feeling excited about my future, I have started a new path with no desire to use.
I Thank You, God, That I Had the Chance to Do this Program!
If there is someone out there in active addiction, know that it's best to get ahead of it because It WILL catch up with up. You’re hurting your family and everyone that cares about you and, most importantly, you’re hurting yourself. It is okay to take help when it’s offered. I didn’t ask for help, but when it was offered, I took it!
Should Medical Schools Teach Doctors about Addiction?
In a nation stuck in its worst addiction epidemic yet, one would think that our medical professionals would be fully prepared to help addicted patients. But quite the opposite is true. In fact, according to Jan Hoffman’s paper for CNBC, only about 15 out of 180 medical programs in the U.S. teach their medical students about addiction to alcohol, drugs, or tobacco.
How Could Doctors Play Their Role in Reducing the Opioid Epidemic?
Doctors played a decisive role in fueling the opioid epidemic whether they knew it or not.
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Why Reformulating Painkillers is No Solution to Oklahoma’s Pill Abuse Problem
In the last several years, there's been a trend toward the reformulation of prescription opioids so as to prevent their abuse. While there might have been good intentions to prevent people from becoming addicted or overdosing by changing this formulation, that is not and will never be an effective solution.
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DEA Report Reveals that Doctors are Creating More Heroin Addicts than Drug Dealers
A recent online article cites an alarming spike in reported heroin abuse, nearly doubling from a 2007 number of 161,000 to 289,000 in 2013. From 2007 to 2014, arrests for heroin abuse also doubled .
