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Drug Overdoses Exploding as COVID-19 Rages
Reviewed by: gbaumbach With all the focus on COVID-19, a second, little-noticed but deadly epidemic has been spreading across the nation. Until now… According to hospital and police records, drug overdoses nationally jumped 18 percent in March (the start of the pandemic), 29 percent in April, and 42 percent in
Are We Losing the Fight on Overdose Deaths?
Reviewed by: gbaumbach Very sad news… According to the New York Times: Drug deaths in America, which fell for the first time in 25 years in 2018, rose to record numbers in 2019 and are continuing to climb, a resurgence that is being complicated and perhaps worsened by the coronavirus
Study – Follow-up Treatments After Opioid Overdose Are Rare
Reviewed by: gbaumbach A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests the medical community still has much to learn about the dangers of opioid addiction. In a nationwide study of approximately 6,500 privately insured patients, researchers discovered that the overwhelming majority of people admitted to emergency
Alcohol Abuse and Dementia
Reviewed by: gbaumbach As the baby boom generation ages, medical experts estimate there’ll be as many as 16 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s by the year 2050. Presently, some 5.5 million people in the U.S. have the disease. And to make matters worse, there’s no known cure. Now medical experts
Yale Researcher Collaborating with Aware Recovery Care on Alcoholism Study
Reviewed by: gbaumbach Aware Recovery Care and the In-Home Addiction Treatment Institute announce a collaboration with Dr. Frank Buono, Ph.D. (Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine) to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial to evaluate the usage and initial acceptability of the Soberlink device. The project is planned
Opioid Deaths Declined in 2018. Is the Battle Over?
Reviewed by: gbaumbach According to the Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust, data from 2018, the most recent dataset available, shows that opioid overdose deaths declined. The same data shows that deaths involving alcohol, synthetic opioids, suicide, and other drugs rose. According to the researchers, over 150,000
Could There Be a Link Between Antibiotic Use and Addiction?
Reviewed by: gbaumbach It is a well-known fact that antibiotic overuse is leading to a sharp rise in the number of antibiotic resistance organisms – often referred to as super-bugs. Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine recently investigated another possible problem associated with antibiotic use. In particular,
Aware Recovery Care of Florida Ranked One of Best in Delray Beach
Reviewed by: gbaumbach Aware Recovery Care of Florida is pleased to announce that we have been named one of the best addiction rehabilitation programs in Delray Beach, Florida by HELP.org HELP.org “exists to help individuals and families make safer and smarter choices. From finding an addiction center that is best,
Aware Recovery Care Announces Innovative New In-Home Withdrawal Management Program
Reviewed by: gbaumbach Often the first stage of recovery from addiction involves help with the often challenging symptoms of withdrawal. Aware Recovery Care is now, for the first time in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island offering that help on an in-home basis. Here are the details: Aware Recovery Care In-Home Withdrawal
Has the Extent of the Opioid Crisis Been Under-Reported?
Reviewed by: gbaumbach What do we know about the extent of the opioid addiction crisis in America? The CDC estimates that as many as 10.3 million Americans aged 12 and older misused opioids in 2018 alone. Tens of thousands died from an overdose that year. Here’s more from the CDC:
Alcohol’s Frightful Impacts
Reviewed by: gbaumbach The opioid crisis in America is real. Of that, there is no doubt. Also real is the much larger problem of alcohol abuse disorder – often referred to as alcoholism. Health experts at the CDC and elsewhere estimate that over 15 million people in America are addicted
The Opioid Addiction Crisis…How We Got There
Reviewed by: gbaumbach According to the Washington Post, “newly disclosed federal drug data shows that more than 100 billion doses of oxycodone and hydrocodone were shipped nationwide from 2006 through 2014 — 24 billion more doses of the highly addictive pain pills than previously known to the public. Nope –