Topic: opioids
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they’ve always created problems for a percentage of users.
Topics: addiction and the brain, addictive substances, alcoholism, opioids, pain, prescription medications, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Practical Advice on Prescription Painkillers
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they’ve always created problems for a percentage of users.
Topics: addiction medications, alcoholism, opioids, pain, prescription medications, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
“Weak” Evidence for Prescription Opioid Effectiveness
These powerful drugs have escaped the constraints of legal use and become widely misused
Topics: opioids, prescription medications, research
Finding the Right Opioid Treatment Program
Some of what patients hear is gossip and folklore, something for which the addict community is famous. But there is a wide variation in quality among OTPs.
Topics: client types and needs, finding the right treatment, MAT, opioids, referral, therapies and tools
Are Humans “Hard-Wired” for Getting High?
I think the continuing popularity of substance use through the ages is because in practical terms, substances work.
Topics: addiction and the brain, hallucinogens, opioids
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt. 2
It’s glib, deceptive, self-serving and futile to address what the CDC has described as an epidemic, by finger-pointing.
Topics: health care, opioids, physicians, prescription medications
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt 1
What we’re seeing now is an unintended consequence of a change in prescribing. Which doesn’t mean that the medical professions weren’t warned about the possibility, however — they were.
Topics: opioids, prescription medications
