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Science-based addiction treatment in Kentucky and the nation must drive our policies | Opinion
Lexington Herald-Leader· 2 days agoWhen you have opioid use disorder (OUD), you can hit a brick wall, because America’s healthcare systems cannot always deliver the care you need. This is true for several reasons, including stigma ...
Matters of Graves Importance: Beat the heat with some of this week's entertainment
Chillicothe Gazette via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoJay was a child who was always told he had a lot of "potential" and spent most of his early years in school in gifted programs for genius kids. At 16, he discovered heroin ...
Demonizing marijuana is old-fashioned. Pot opponents should research and get with times
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 7 days agoI do believe marijuana may be addictive to some, but anything is addictive to the addictive...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 2 days agoIllegal fentanyl seems to be everywhere in the US. Synthetic opioids (largely fentanyl) were linked to more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths in the US in 2021, up from fewer than 58,000 the ...
Home prices are rising nearly everywhere. Not in Hollywood
Los Angeles Times· 4 hours agoA few blocks from the corner of Western and Melrose, the 1920s bungalow on Lemon Grove Avenue had a...
Demonizing marijuana is old-fashioned. Pot opponents should research and get with times
Gannett via AOL· 7 days agoI do believe marijuana may be addictive to some, but anything is addictive to the addictive...
Former Augusta Correctional Center officer pleads guilty to smuggling drugs into prison
Gannett via AOL· 6 days agoThe drug is typically used to treat heroin addiction but can be abused. The Augusta County grand jury indicted Heckle in November on the drug charge, as ...
Effort to ban kratom in Virginia sparks uproar
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 7 days agoA petition to change kratom to a Schedule I drug has sparked outrage. Pharmacists say it’s for users’ safety.
Opinion | Biden’s Love for His Son Is Beautiful — and It Hits Home for Me
New York Times· 3 days agoMr. Sheff is the author of “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction.” When my...
The drug-overdose capitals of Europe
The Economist· 7 days agoFOR YEARS European authorities have worried that a drug epidemic on the scale of America’s opioid crisis would arrive at the continent’s shores. Drugs like fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times ...
