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A child is born addicted to drugs every 25 minutes in America. Yes – you read that correctly. Every 25 minutes. How can a baby be addicted, you ask? Simple – a pregnant mom passes the drugs she takes through the placenta, the umbilical cord, and right into a developing…
Opioid use during pregnancy carries high risks for the unborn child, including preterm birth, stillbirth, and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). NAS for a newborn is an excruciating process of withdrawal from opioids the child has been exposed to in the womb. Given these facts, treating women with opioid abuse disorder…
As fentanyl’s deadly rampage continues, frontline physicians across the U.S. are seeing another profoundly troubling development. Fentanyl creates a much more difficult withdrawal for patients treated with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder. Why is that important? Because buprenorphine is one of just two drug therapies available to help patients manage what…
A new report from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) shows methamphetamines to be a significant driver of overdoses in rural areas of the U.S. “Among people who use drugs in rural communities, methamphetamine use is pervasive,” said Todd Korthuis, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine at the OHSU School of…
Sadly, many who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ+) often face cruel harassment, isolation, discrimination, and even violence in their lives. Bisexual and transgender individuals often face the additional burden of double discrimination because they're not fully recognized or supported by society or the lesbian and/or gay…
One-in-three Americans will develop a substance abuse disorder (SUD) in their lifetimes. New research sheds light on the impact of developing an addiction to drugs and or alcohol in adolescence, and the news is disturbing. According to a new study from the University of Michigan, published in JAMA Network Open[i]…
It has long been reported that the problem of opioid abuse is an equal opportunity employer. It strikes the rich and the not so rich, those who are white and those of color, the well educated and the not so well educated. It also strikes the young and the old…
Research has pointed to the connection between opioid abuse and childhood trauma for some time. One study, published in 2009 in the Journal of Addictive Diseases found that among those seeking treatment for opioid abuse (a consecutive sample of 113 participants) “20.4% reported having experienced sexual abuse, 39.8% reported having…
Naloxone is a drug that, when used appropriately, can save lives in instances of an opioid overdose. When given to someone suffering an overdose, it quickly restores normal breathing in those whose breathing has slowed or stopped. Is it so effective that it might make opioid use seem less dangerous…
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, two out of every three Americans struggling with addiction relapse within a year (interestingly, Aware Recovery Care clients do far better than this national average by a factor of six or more). Why does this happen? Well, it turns out that…
