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Researchers at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine have just published a study calculating the years of life lost in years by young people who have died from a drug overdose. The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, looked at 3,296 teens ages 10-19 and 21,689 people…
In early January 2022, a 13-year-old seventh-grader in Hartford, Connecticut, died from a fentanyl overdose. Some 40 bags of fentanyl were later found at the school. His death is being blamed in part on the fact that school officials in Hartford are poorly trained to identify the signs of an…
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…
Addiction specialists, medical providers, and law enforcement are constantly on the lookout for the next new and dangerous designer drug. They maintain this vigilance, hoping that catching it soon after its release onto the streets will save lives. Researchers at the University of Alberta are trying to go a step…
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…
One hundred thousand three hundred six (100,306) people in the United States died of drug overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. 100,306 That's 275 people every single day. The rate of overdose deaths in America is now four times higher than any other country per 100,000 people. Four times…
Aware Recovery Care is now offering its unique in-home addiction treatment program to individuals living in the Richmond, Virginia region. Virginia, like all states, has had its fair share of alcohol and drug abuse. In 2020, Virginia reported 2,186 drug overdose deaths, a 42.1% increase from the 1,538 reported in…
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…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics has just released stunning new data. For the 12 months covering March 2020-March 2021, there were 96,779 drug overdose deaths in America. That's an increase of over 26% year over year. And that's only a provisional estimate…
