January 08, 2019
Groundbreaking Opioid Addiction Treatment Program Arrives in Maine
Aware Recovery Care, an innovative and promising drug and alcohol addiction treatment program created in concert with addiction specialists at Yale University, has opened its doors in Maine. The program is unique in the nation. Aware Recovery Care’s unique and innovative in-home addiction treatment program was founded on the research-supported…
January 08, 2019
Opioid Drug Makers Facing Same Treatment Big Tobacco Received.
Mike Moore used to be the Attorney General for the state of Mississippi. He is also the guy who decided to sue Big Tobacco for lying about nicotine addiction and to hold them accountable for the health-care costs of sick smokers. Though derided and told he had no shot at…
December 10, 2018
Alcohol and Pregnancy – the Tragic Costs
It’s an established fact that no amount of alcohol consumed by an expectant mom during pregnancy is good for the infant. For expectant moms who suffer from alcoholism or alcohol dependency – the impact on the child is often very grave, producing children with a condition called fetal alcohol spectrum…
November 21, 2018
Incredibly – FDA Approves New Opioid Ten Times More Powerful Than Fentanyl
These are the FACTS about America’s problem with opioids… Approximately 40,000 Americans are now dying annually from opioid overdoses. That’s approximately 115 people every single day. More than two million Americans are now addicted to opioids. Americans make up 5% of the world’s population – but consume 80% of the…
November 09, 2018
A Root Cause of Drug and Alcohol Addiction
For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery of addiction, how it gets started, and why it often persists so stubbornly. And for years, there’s been a theory that a chemical in the human nervous system called dopamine lies at the core of that mystery. Dopamine is what’s…
October 26, 2018
Drug Deaths Continue to Rise…
Sadly – the drug addiction crisis in America continues to roar ahead – seemingly unabated. In data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control, bleak new estimates put the number of drug overdose deaths in 2017 at 72,000. That number is not a typo. The Vietnam War (1961-1975) took…
October 16, 2018
Liver Disease Is on the Rise. Why?
A few years ago, physicians, like Elliot Tapper at the University of Michigan Medical School, began noticing an alarming increase in the number of young adults seeking help for liver disease. Their observation led them on a quest to understand why. The medical journal BMJ has just published the results…
September 28, 2018
Is Xanax Fuel for the Next Drug Crisis?
With an opioid crisis choking the nation, it’s understandable that few are talking about what drugs might create the next crisis. Addiction treatment specialists, however, are seeing the beginnings of a worrying trend – a surge of adolescents addicted to Xanax and other sedatives in a class of anti-anxiety drugs…
September 24, 2018
The Dangers Opioid Overdose Survivors Face…
The opioid crisis has left millions of Americans addicted. It has also led to many tens of thousands of overdoses. And even when addicts survive an overdose incident – they still face staggeringly high odds (130 times greater) of dying from related causes. Just what are those causes? HIV Chronic…
September 06, 2018
New Evidence Points to A Leading Cause of Addiction
Why is it that some succumb to drug or alcohol addiction and others do not? Well, we’ve known for a while that there’s a genetic link. But could something else be a significant contributor? According to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and confirmed by Kaiser Permanente…