Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use Recently released and revised medication-assisted treatments (MAT) have been an important area of research to counter the present opioid epidemic. MATs have helped patients in their recovery. It is the administration of opioid agonists (methadone, buprenorphine, oxycodone), antagonists (naltrexone, naloxone), and combinations of the two (buprenorphine/naloxone). While shown [...]
Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use Cannabis sativa was domesticated centuries ago, undergoing extensive breeding and cultivation for medicinal, food, industrial and recreational purposes. However, there is still much left to be understood about the molecular structure of the cannabinoid content. A recent study has drawn a physical and genetic map of the cannabis [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Mark Gold’s Research You Can Use Cannabis legalization and emerging new literature are suggesting to some that marijuana is safe and the “medicinal” use of cannabis has increased. Perinatal Marijuana Use has increased considerably during pregnancy as the demographics of pregnancy and cannabis use overlap. Use of cannabis has also increased in women of [...]
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