Tag: substance use
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What is Terminally Online?
Stay at home Covid-19’s negative effects on internet usage: Who Is Addicted And What Are The Consequences? John Riley People log in to their favorite social media sites all over the world every day and spend hours on them. Social media has become so popular it has become a major addiction for millions of people…
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How to Treat Both Trauma and Addiction
Single-gender sessions, and power in numbers. Lantie Elisabeth Jorandby M.D. Reviewed by Vanessa Lancaster Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event. Trauma experienced during childhood may be especially harmful and long-lasting. Some people with unresolved trauma will turn to drugs or alcohol to numb themselves to it—and become addicted. Trauma-informed addiction care shifts…
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Is Substance Abuse or Addiction Considered a VA Disability?
American Addiction Center The VA recognizes substance use disorders as a disability because the use of alcohol, tobacco, street drugs, and prescription drugs is so prevalent among veterans. Without treatment, substance use disorders can cause other health problems—both physical and emotional. The VA acknowledges that substance abuse disorder is often related to other conditions such…
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L.A. Times report that Tom Petty’s death is still a hard reminder for aging rockers and opioid addiction.
BY RANDY LEWIS (This original article has paragraphs that have been omitted for context to opioid addiction) When Tom Petty was rushed to a hospital one year ago in full cardiac arrest, two words immediately sprang to many minds: Not again. Weeks later, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s report confirmed what many family members, friends…
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CDC issues new guidelines for opioid prescriptions
Will Stone & Pien Huang The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new guidance for clinicians on how and when to prescribe opioids for pain. Released Thursday, this revamps the agency’s 2016 recommendations which some doctors and patients have criticized for promoting a culture of austerity around opioids. CDC officials say that doctors, insurers, pharmacies…
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Combating the Opioid Epidemic in New Hampshire
Representative Chris Pappas of New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District Note from the Publisher: Election time is coming up and living in an important primary state such as New Hampshire I wanted to share what Mr. Pappas considered one of our very important issues facing our state, addiction. Here is what is recognized and what efforts…
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Combating the Opioid Epidemic in New Hampshire
State issue presented by Congressman Chris Pappas – New Hampshire 1st congressional district For all too many New Hampshire families, the opioid crisis is deeply personal. Far more action must be taken at all levels to save lives and curb this epidemic. As a member of New Hampshire’s Executive Council, I provided the pivotal vote…
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NIH to trial whether MAGIC MUSHROOMS can help smokers quit — in first federal study of psychedelics in 50 years
By CASSIDY MORRISON SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM A federally-funded study will test the power of magic mushrooms as a smoking cessation for long-term users. The $4million research grant marks the first allocation of Government money to study the medicinal benefits of psychedelics in 50 years. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, University of Alabama Birmingham, and New York University will launch…
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Celebrities Who Are Open About Addiction
Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD on September 10, 2020 Robert Downey Jr. The actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager and spent most of his early career under their influence. He had several high-profile arrests in the late 1990s and early 2000s while misusing alcohol, cocaine, and heroin and spent time in a California…
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Almost 60 percent of pregnant teens say they have used one or more substances in the past year, nearly double the rate of non-pregnant teens, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found.
Use of these substances continues during pregnancy, especially among younger teens, the study found. More than one-third of all pregnant teens ages 12 to 14 said they used one or more substances in the previous month, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Pregnant teens were most likely to use alcohol (16 percent), followed by marijuana (14 percent) and other…