Heroin Addiction: How My Father Saved Me
I was a breech birth ― feet first, my head got stuck in the birth canal. My father brought me to Children’s Hospital in Boston. The doctors diagnosed me with Cerebral Palsy. They told him that the loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed a portion of the frontal lobe.
But my father was a tough Irish Catholic, old-school warrior. He refused to listen to them. No son of his was going to be a cripple. He found a doctor that told him how he could take the place of my injured brain.
Every day, he laid me on the floor and exercised my legs. The muscles in my right leg were all shrunken and twisted. His job was to straigh...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'All Scientific Hands On Deck' To End The Opioid Crisis
By Nora Volkow (Director, NIDA) and Francis Collins (Director, NIH)
In 2015, 2 million people had a prescription opioid use disorder and 591,000 suffered from a heroin use disorder; prescription drug misuse alone cost the nation $78.5 billion in health care, law enforcement, and lost productivity. But while the scope of the crisis is staggering, it is not hopeless. We understand opioid addiction better than many other drug use disorders; there are effective strategies that can be implemented right now to save lives and to prevent and treat opioid addiction. At the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta, GA las...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Trump's Approach To The Opioid Epidemic: Neglect Treatment, Ignore The Experts
WASHINGTON – Since taking office, President Donald Trump has systematically removed or limited the power of federal officials and government offices that have the expertise to confront the nation’s opioid epidemic.
Trump asked Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to resign in late April. He still has an acting director running the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although he backtracked on his reported plan to essentially gut his Office of National Drug Control Policy, staffers would be wise to polish their resumes.
Trump’s new budget proposal cuts all federal drug prevention programs by roughly...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA OKs Bunavail for Induction of Opioid Addiction Treatment FDA OKs Bunavail for Induction of Opioid Addiction Treatment
The FDA has broadened the indication for Bunavail (buprenorphine and naloxone) buccal film to include induction of buprenorphine treatment for opioid dependence.FDA Approvals (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - May 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Pharmacist News Alert Source Type: news
FDA OKs BioDelivery Sciences ’ Bunavail opioid dependence film
BioDelivery Sciences International (NSDQ:BDSI) said today that the FDA approved a supplemental new drug application for its Bunavail buprenorphine and naloxone buccal film. The revised indication allows patients to use the product to initiate buprenorphine treatment for opioid dependence.
Induction is the initial process by which a patient transitions from abusing an opioid to buprenorphine treatment which is designed to relieve cravings and withdrawal, according to BioDelivery Sciences.
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The post FDA OKs BioDelivery Sciences’ Bunavail opioid dependen...
Source: Mass Device - May 2, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Drug-Device Combinations Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Pharmaceuticals Regulatory/Compliance Wall Street Beat BioDelivery Sciences International Source Type: news
These Are The 2 Key Ways People Get Hooked On Prescription Opioids
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
ARS adding clinics, prescribers to meet opioid treatment demand
Accessible Recovery Services, a Pittsburgh-based network of a dozen medically assisted opioid treatment clinics across the state, said it plans to add six more sites and dozens of "extenders" — nurse practitioners and physician assistants able to prescribe drugs like buprenorphine — in the next three to four months to meet demand.
Dr. Frank Kunkel, president and CEO of ARS, said the clinics serve roughly 7,000 patients per year, providing access to drugs like suboxone and buprenorph ine, opioids… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - March 23, 2017 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Lydia Nuzum Source Type: news
Hardly Any Teens Receive Effective Treatment For Opioid Addiction
(Reuters Health) - Just a small fraction of adolescents with opioid addiction will receive medications that can help them quit, new research shows.
These medications, usually methadone or suboxone, are prescribed to reduce craving for opiates and ease withdrawal symptoms, and studies show they help opiate users to abstain. In 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics advised doctors to consider medication-assisted treatment, specifically suboxone, for adolescents with “severe opioid use disorders.”
To get a “baseline” sense of medication-assisted treatment in adolescents with opiate or heroin addicti...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Obamacare Repeal Could Cripple Efforts To Combat The Opioid Epidemic
WASHINGTON ― Repealing the Affordable Care Act would deal a major blow to efforts to fight addiction in one of the states hardest hit by the opioid epidemic, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School and New York University.
Across the country, some four million Americans with addictions or mental health disorders could lose their health insurance, greatly diminishing access to life-saving treatments, the researchers found. In Kentucky, the effects of ACA repeal would be especially devastating.
The end of Obamacare could cost Kentucky more than 44 percent of its funding for medication-assisted treatm...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America ’ s Opioid Crisis
The opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015. What follows are stories of a national affliction that has swept the country, from cities on the West Coast to bedroom communities in the Northeast. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heroin Addiction (Psychology) Buprenorphine (Drug) Naloxone (Drug) Sinaloa Cartel Seattle (Wash) Milwaukee (Wis) Iowa New England States (US) Utah Source Type: news
Snapshots of an Epidemic: A Look at the Opioid Crisis Across the Country
The opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015. What follows are stories of a national affliction that has swept the country, from cities on the West Coast to bedroom communities in the Northeast. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - January 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heroin Addiction (Psychology) Buprenorphine (Drug) Naloxone (Drug) Sinaloa Cartel Seattle (Wash) Milwaukee (Wis) Iowa New England States (US) Utah Source Type: news
Orexo Appeals Zubsolv(R) US District Court Decision
UPPSALA, Sweden, Dec 8, 2016 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Orexo AB (publ.) announces that it has appealed the decision rendered by the United States District Court for the District of Delaware on November 15, 2016 regarding the validity of... Biopharmaceuticals, Generics, Litigation Orexo, Zubsolv, buprenorphine, naloxone, Actavis (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - December 8, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
At the Frontline of the Opioid Epidemic, but Unable to Help
People seek out the emergency room to get painkillers, but the E.R. remains one of the hardest places to get help for an addiction. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: HELEN OUYANG, M.D. Tags: Addiction (Psychology) Pain-Relieving Drugs Emergency Medical Treatment Drug Abuse and Traffic Hospitals Buprenorphine (Drug) Naloxone (Drug) OxyContin (Drug) Source Type: news
Houston Concierge Medicine Now Offering Outpatient Drug Rehab...
Houston Concierge Medicine and Wellness is now offering outpatient drug rehab therapy with Suboxone. The therapy is highly effective for helping patients who want to get off of opiates as an...(PRWeb November 03, 2016)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/suboxonedoctorshouston/outpatientdrugrehab/prweb13821692.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - November 3, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
U.S. FDA Approves Orexo's Low Dose ZUBSOLV(R) Buprenorphine and Naloxone Sublingual Tablets (CIII)
MORRISTOWN, N.J., Oct. 6, 2016 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Orexo US announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ZUBSOLV® (buprenorphine/naloxone CIII sublingual tablet) 0.7mg/0.18mg for the treatment ... Biopharmaceuticals, FDA Orexo, ZUBSOLV, buprenorphine, naloxone (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - October 6, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
