Earlier this week, President Trump appointed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to head a commission on the opioid epidemic in the US. Christie will chair a special committee that will fall under the jurisdiction of the newly formed White House Office of American Innovation, which was rolled out ... Read More
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Jessie’s Law Introduced in West Virginia
Something that many people in recovery fear is having to take opioid pain medication because of a surgery or some other accident that has left them in pain. They know that introducing these substances into their body could have the potential to awaken the beast, causing them to relapse and go back ... Read More
What Will the New GOP Healthcare Plan Mean for Addiction Treatment Services?
This week is do or die for the new GOP Healthcare plan. As of this writing, Paul Ryan and Donald Trump are currently meeting with members of the Republican Party in order to drum up support for the proposed bill that will replace the Affordable Care Act. Already the GOP’s healthcare plan, called ... Read More
Ohio Using Cold Storage Trailers as Morgues
According to an article published in the Washington Post last week, the problem of opioid-related deaths has gotten so bad in one Ohio county that they have actually started to employ the usage of cold storage trailers in order to supplement the lack of space in local morgues. Stark County in Ohio ... Read More
Why Jeff Sessions Reviving “Just Say No” Is A Deadly Call
The rhetoric making up the American landscape has changed dramatically since President Trump took office. At the end of last year, the news media was awash with stories about changing the narrative of drug addiction in this country, and finally moving towards a more progressive, and to be honest, ... Read More
Ohio Town is Now Charging Overdose Survivors
I was in my car this past weekend listening to NPR and I heard a story about how a town in Ohio is going to start charging opioid overdose survivors with inducing panic, in order to help stop the dramatic increase in opioid overdoses they have seen in the past two years. A little background on this ... Read More
Why Playing the Victim is Killing Your Sobriety
We all know that one person who just can’t seem to understand that people are not doing malicious things to them. They can’t recognize that all of the negative things that occur in their life are not the result of some master plan of the universe to destroy their peace of mind, and we all know how ... Read More
New Jersey Passes “Anti-Addiction” Legislation
In 2015 1,600 New Jersey residents died from drug overdoses. A majority of the overdoses were the direct result of heroin laced with fentanyl and theses number represent an almost 300% increase since 2004. Yet, New Jersey is not alone in their struggle to combat the effects that opioid abuse has had ... Read More
What Repealing the Affordable Care Act Means for Addiction Treatment Services
Regardless of your political leanings, it is fair to say that there is a general confusion in the air these days. Most us are not entirely sure which way this country is heading or what any of this will mean in the long term and as each days passes, this feeling of confusion seems to be ... Read More
Oxycontin is Becoming a Bigger Problem Globally
As the opioid epidemic in the United States appears to be coming to a head, the maker of Oxycontin, and one of the chief instigators of this national dilemma, Purdue Pharma, sets its sight overseas on untapped and unrestricted markets. That is what a recent LA Times article revealed and in the words ... Read More