What Is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)? Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is an evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorders and alcohol use disorders that uses FDA-approved medications to ...

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) refers to a group of behavioral and physical conditions a baby experiences when withdrawing from exposure to drugs in the womb. There are two major types of NAS: ...

How Are Alcohol And Depression Linked? Depressive disorders result in symptoms that cause serious reductions in a person’s ability to engage in activities of daily living (ADLs). These ADLs can be as ...

“Swiping right” on modern dating apps can bring users one step closer to matching with a potential partner, but drug dealers in Florida are abusing this opportunity to sell their wares. Detectives ...

Johnson & Johnson, alongside three major pharmaceutical distributors, have agreed to pay nearly $26 billion to settle thousands of opioid-related lawsuits on Friday. These lawsuits claimed that their ...

Emmy nominated actor Michael K. Williams was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment on Monday, September 6th, 2021. The 54-year-old, best known for playing Omar Little on HBO’s “The Wire,” more than ...

Alcohol includes all types of beer, wine, and liquor. Alcohol ranks number one on this list due to its accessibility and the extensive health problems and injuries associated with use. An estimated 95 ...

The destruction caused by the opioid crisis spreads far and wide in the US. There are many massive contributors to the damage, most notably Purdue Pharma and other pharmaceutical entities. However, ...

Purdue Pharma was founded in the 1990s by Richard Sackler and the company planned to unveil the pain pill OxyContin in 1996. Purdue Pharma’s marketing strategy aimed to target the drug to all patients ...

Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, is appearing more frequently in drug supplies across the country and is thought to be responsible for thousands of overdoses in states like Pennsylvania, New York, ...

Lean, also known by the popular street name “purple drank,” is an illicit substance made with codeine, containing cough syrup, soda, hard candy, occasionally alcohol, and the antihistamine, ...

The Deadliest Drugs In America From 2011 To 2016 While more people died from drug use in 2016 than any year prior, the list does not give an accurate representation of the whole picture. 289,915 lives ...