You may have noticed the media discussing opioid addiction lately but you might not know what the heck an opioid is. Educating yourself is the first step to spotting and helping stop this in your loved ones. While this is by no means an exhaustive list, we...
Just recently, the FDA gave Braeburn Pharmaceuticals the green light to use the first opioid addiction treatment, a Probuphine (buprenorphine) implant, on patients. The more I read about this new implant, the more nervous I get. The implant, an inch long and...
If you read our post about having the “gateway” talk with your loved ones about pain medication abuse leading to heroin addiction, you might be happy to hear there’s an upside to that chat: the part about cannabis being seen as a gateway drug leading away...
A Long Look at Opioids In this video, the History of Opioids, you’ll watch a historical overview of people and opioids. They take a look at when people first started using opioids, how they’ve changed over the years, and ways that they’ve been both...
