Dr. Mark Gold's Research You Can Use The devastating repercussions exerted by the opioid overdose epidemic plaguing the nation has been nothing short of crippling. Opioid overdoses presently claim an average of 115 lives a day. In an article published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jeffrey Samet, chief of general internal medicine [...]
"Depression is the inability to construct a future" ~ Rollo May The National Institute of Mental Health states that 16.2 million adults in the United States have experienced depression. They estimate 3.1 million US adolescents have suffered from depression. It is a national problem for many! Consequently, many seek to drown our depression in alcohol, [...]
Dr. Mark Gold's Research You Can Use Opioid agonists like buprenorphine/naloxone have proven to be highly effective, evidence-based treatments for treating opioid use disorders. Yet, these are sometimes diverted for non-medical use, indicating a significant shortage in treatment capacity and inaccessibility of existing services. This was found in a recent study aimed at answering the [...]
Opioids are a class of drugs that include illegal drugs like heroin as well as prescription drugs like fentanyl, oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, morphine, and many others. [5] While not everyone who is prescribed or has tried opioids will go on to abuse them, they are highly addictive due to their powerful ability to [...]
It’s likely you’ve seen the nation’s opioid epidemic in the news lately, as opioid use, misuse (or use disorder), and overdose has vastly increased in the past several years. Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Opioids are a class of drugs [...]MEDICAL ADVICE DISCLAIMER: The service, and any information contained on the website or provided through the service, is provided for informational purposes only. The information contained on or provided through this service is intended for general consumer understanding and education and not as a substitute for medical or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. All information provided on the website is presented as is without any warranty of any kind, and expressly excludes any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.