Public Health

Why is it that we keep trying to treat drug addiction with still more drugs?

Prescription ODs now account for more fatalities than automobile accidents.

It takes thirty seconds to write a prescription… that fits very well into a scheduled 15 minute office visit.

In that respect, you could say that our ally in change is addiction itself.

Chimayo and surrounding Rio Arriba County have long struggled with heroin overdose rates that exceed ten times the national average.

The fewer services you provide, the fewer staff you need, and the more likely you are to have a healthy profit margin.

It makes perfect sense to do something that’s been shown to be effective at limiting one very important adverse consequence to the individual and society

I was reading about a dramatic increase in cases of Hepatitis C in Maine, a state that, like the rest of the Northeast, has been (continued…)

To make the CMHC system a reality, we’d need— hold your breath, this can be scary— a national plan that requires stable funding.

It makes little sense to criticize our “system” of mental health care, when it’s only a system in some places. In the national sense, it isn’t a system at all, and never has been.