A roundup of the best in addiction news delivered here on our blog each Monday morning. 1. Cigna discontinues their policy of requiring doctors to seek authorization before they go about treating a patient for opioid addiction. (Reuters) 2. Man that was mistakenly arrested for alleged meth possession (turns out it was just donut glaze) will...
The United States opioid crisis is about to get a new spotlight thanks to the upcoming Netflix original 6 Balloons. The drama film stars Dave Franco, younger brother of actor James Franco, and Abbi Jacobson from the Comedy Central series Broad City. It includes Jane Kaczmarek, from Malcolm in the Middle, and Tim Matheson of...
A new documentary from MTV, titled “Prescription For Change: Ending America’s Opioid Crisis” features award winning musician Macklemore and President Barack Obama. The video, running approximately 45 minutes, is free to watch on Youtube. Part of it follows three young women on the road to recovery, struggling with addictions to opioids. The documentary really touches...
For many years, we’ve been seeing an increase in deaths related to opioid overdoses in the United States. So, the FDA and the CDC decided to analyze the data the National Vital Statistics Survey on Drug Use and Health and the National Statistics System released for the years between 2002 and 2013. It’s not new...
New guidelines have been released by the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that encourage doctors to avoid prescribing opioids to their patients and instead offer treatment alternatives such as physical therapy or non-addictive painkillers. Though opioids have many positive benefits medically, the risk has been increasingly outweighing the benefit. For every five people...
This March, actress Jodie Sweetin will have so much more to celebrate than her return to TV for everyone’s favorite 90’s reboot sitcom Fuller House; her five years of sobriety. When Full House ended its eight year run on ABC in 1995, Sweetin was just 14 years old. For someone who grew up on the...
New drug buprenorphine helps opiate addicts. It is safe and effective and it is being more widely used but the problem is an increase in the accidental exposure of this drug to children. These kids are at serious risk for injury or death, according to researchers at the Utah Poison Control Center (UPCC), U School...
