Is there an easy solution to America’s deadly painkiller addiction epidemic? Probably not. But we certainly support anyone that’s willing to offer ideas. Case in point: Barbara Andraka-Christou, author of The Opioid Fix. Andraka-Christou happens to be a professor of health management and informatics at the University of Central Florida and shared some thoughts from her new book […]
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If you were to ask us, booze can create problems no matter how much you consume. We have seen the firsthand effects of the ravages of alcoholism and certainly advise anyone recovering to abstain completely. But if there were to be a “magic number” for the right amount to drink in a day that was
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We always appreciate it when dependencies are looked at from a scientific angle. There is so much to be learned from the brain’s behavior and how impulses beyond our control can fuel addictive tendencies. To that end, researchers from Stanford University and the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently combined forces to
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There is no denying that drunk driving is a serious problem in America. So serious, in fact, that it accounts for more than 10,000 U.S. deaths each year. To help combat that, the Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization (also known as MADD) and several national legislators are working to push through new laws to limit the amount
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It’s not often that we cite a finance article as the source for of one of our blogs. But in this instance, The Motley Fool may be on to something. A recent market expose on their site highlighted a dramatic increase in share prices for online gambling companies. So what does that mean to us? That
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We always like to see recovery stories about brought to a regional level. And in our world (which consists of treatment centers in Santa Clarita and Agua Dulce), that means reactions and responses within Southern California. Well The Los Angeles Times is, of course, the authority on that region, which is why we were excited when they
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There is no denying that the world slowed down a bit once the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Quarantining and closures led to the halting of many programs that had previously been gaining momentum. One such initiative involved publicly safe injection sites, where addicted heroin users could shoot up in a clean environment. Well, interestingly enough, the cause has
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There is no denying that marijuana has become much more acceptable today than in decades’ past. Nevertheless, it is still classified as a drug and research has shown that it can lead to addictions in some people. On top of that, new data is tying chronic weed smoking to heart complications; which, we think, is
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July is upon us, which means that more data has been gathered as we enter month four of COVID-19 quarantines. We have already shared alarming stats about addiction increases during this pandemic (particularly when it comes to alcohol). And tragically, fatal overdoses are on the rise too. PBS NewsHour recently shared some new metrics related to fatal
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