Attorneys general in six states filed lawsuits Tuesday against the maker of OxyContin and other pain medicines, for what the Texas attorney general called misleading marketing tactics that are fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic. Texas’ lawsuit accuses Purdue Pharma, the privately...
News
Why alcohol affects women more than men
It used to be that men were the outsized alcohol drinkers in Western society – perhaps best depicted in popular culture by Don Draper’s Mad Men cronies, who swilled from office stashes of brown liquor, knocked back three-martini lunches and imbibed...
Fentanyl Overdoses In Hospitals
There have been a series of deaths at Ohio hospitals and experts are questioning is pharmaceutical fentanyl is to blame? Ohio is one of the leading states when it comes to the opioid crisis, 3 out of 4 deaths in Ohio...
Meth Seizures Rise Across the Midwest
Meth seizures are up three percent across the Midwest, according to the Omaha Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration. This includes South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa. The DEA says it has collected 842.6 pounds of meth so far...
What causes alcohol addiction?
Molecular mechanisms including lower levels of a protein in the brain may be the reason why addicts choose alcohol over an alternative reward, finds a study that may help improve treatment for alcohol dependence. The study suggested that the level of...
How the way we talk about addiction can make it harder for people to recover
Amanda Dick, who’s being treated for drug use, says she might have got help sooner if not for the stigma of being labelled an “addict.” “It makes you feel like a stereotype … stealing, crime, lying — all sorts of things,”...
Substance Abuse In Nursing
10% of all nurses might be dependent on alcohol or other drugs, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing figures. As the National Council of State Boards of Nursing states “Many nurses with substance use disorder are unidentified,...
San Francisco to distribute addiction drug directly to users
San Francisco’s mayor plans to put medical teams on the streets to distribute a drug that curbs heroin cravings in opioid addicts, an initiative he says will be the first in the country. Mayor Mark Farrell announced Thursday he will allocate...
5 Ways Fitness Helps in Recovering From Addiction
On June 30, 2000, Louise Green a 29 years old and found herself mentally, physically, and spiritually bankrupt; devoid of all emotion, lost, and terrified of myself. She had stuffed every feeling she had down into the depths of her core...
Opioid Maker Agrees to Pay $270M for Addiction Treatment in Oklahoma
Purdue Pharma is settling a lawsuit with the State of Oklahoma for $270 million. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma and three other opioid pharmaceutical companies in 2017. Mike Hunter sued these companies’ because of misleading...