HUMANITY LOST: POLITICIZATION OF OPIOID EPIDEMIC PROVES DEADLY FOR ADDICTS
It wasn’t that long ago that I felt encouraged about the activity surrounding our drug policy. That is not to say I agreed with every aspect of policy, in fact there...
THE KAVA AND KRATOM CRISIS
The word “natural” can be very misleading when used in marketing campaigns for consumable products. People often assume that natural products are safe and healthy. This actually is true much of...
ORGANIC PLANT MEDICINE – A PLAN TO END OUR OPIATE/OPIOID EPIDEMIC TODAY!
In late September (2016), Florida State’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, joined thirty-five other states and the District of Columbia in a class action law suite against Reckitt Benckiser, the manufacturers of...
Deadly Adulterants: New Dangers of Illicit Drugs
The “cutting” or “adulteration” of street drugs is common practice in the manufacturing, distribution and selling of illicit drugs, all in the name of increased profit. The term “adulterant” generally refers...
Cake – Chronic Pain – Courage
In the hit independent movie Cake, Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who knows pain. Barely surviving a horrific car accident which kills her 3-year-old son, she is left with a scarred...
HEY GRANDMA, CAN I LIVE WITH YOU? GRANDPARENTS AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC
The other day I received a phone call from Helen. She and her husband Rick were beside themselves after learning their daughter, a 42-year-old PhD student, had relapsed into drug addiction....
OUR IMPENDING SYNTHETIC STORM
“ Danger Gleams Like Sunshine to a Brave Man’s Eyes”
Heroin and opiate addiction in America is a pandemic. I have used the word epidemic many times during this escalation of death,...
SPECIAL REPORT: ADVOCATES MARCH ON WASHINGTON, DC FOR OPIOID CRISIS FUNDING
WASHINGTON, DC - The 2016 FED UP! Rally and March to Capitol Hill was held on September 18, 2016 on a hot and sweltering autumn day. Activists and family members assembled...
ARE MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) DRUGS ROBBING PEOPLE OF THEIR RECOVERY?
With all due respect to my colleagues who might feel differently, an opioid is an opioid; period. I believe the vast majority of my colleagues’ hearts are in the right place...
The False Matching of the Buprenorphine Dose
Faced with a devastating opiate/opioid epidemic the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved some Medication-Assisted Treatments (MATs) for the treatment of alcoholism, opiate, and nicotine dependence, but nothing for psychostimulant...
