It’s been less than a week since news broke about Juice WRLD’s untimely passing. Carmella Wallace, Juice WRLD’s mother, has released a statement regarding her son’s death. Juice ... Read More
Opioids
Could CBD Treat Opioid Addiction?
At the state level, opioid overdose death rates are actually higher for black, non-Hispanic individuals than for white individuals in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, ... Read More
What Are The Medication-Based Treatment Options For Opioid Addiction
Yesterday morning, I was seeing patients with a colleague of mine, a physician and medical director of a large clinic providing medical care to residents of an impoverished section ... Read More
Intravenous Drug Use of Opioids and HIV transmission: Opioids 101
Opioids are natural and synthetic derivatives of opium, a compound produced by the poppy plant. Opium and its derivatives have been used for their medicinal purposes for thousands ... Read More
Cold/Flu Safety: Opioid Cough & Cold Medicines 18 & Older Only
Although we may let our kids sing along to the latest in ‘lean’ infused music, that doesn’t mean the FDA is here for it. Whether your child knows what ‘purp’, ‘sizzurp’, ... Read More
From The ‘War On Drugs’ To ‘National Health Emergency’: Opioid Addiction & Health Disparities In Black Communities
The United States is battling one of the deadliest public health crises in our history. Drug overdoses have now become the leading cause of accidental death for people under the ... Read More
Opioids: Are You Using Them Safely?
Every 19 minutes, someone dies from an accidental opioids overdose, the CDC reports. Even more alarming? Though, Americans represent only 5% of the world's population, they consume ... Read More
Unused Meds: One Man’s Relief Could Be Another’s Opioid Addiction
Surgery patients are usually prescribed opioids to ease postoperative aching, but more than two-thirds end up with leftover narcotics and don't get rid of them, according ... Read More
Opioid Addiction: 5 Things Everyone Should Know
I was scared and intimidated. I was standing in a cold and poorly lit hospital emergency room next to my father who was curled up on a stretcher. This scene was all too common. ... Read More
A Crash is Inevitable: The HIV epidemic and Drug Addiction
In the previous article, I tried to shed some light on this current “Opioid Epidemic”, the social and political complexities and it’s intersection with the HIV/ Hepatitis ... Read More
Remembering Kris Kross Rapper Chris Kelly: Gone So Young
Back in the early 90's was the time in hip-hop where everything started clicking. You had so much variety in rap with conscious rappers, west coast rappers, eat coast rappers and ... Read More
BREAKING: Pills Cause Massive Overdose In Georgia
There is a drug that has hit the southern and central parts of Georgia that has already taken the lives of the same number who died from drug overdoses all of 2016--and it's only ... Read More
BREAKING: Pills Seized From Prince’s Home Mislabeled; Contained Large Dose Of Fentanyl
A new report discovered by the Minneapolis Star Tribune suggests pills taken from Prince’s Paisley Park estate marked as hydrocodone actually contained the powerful opioid ... Read More
Officials Release Prince’s Cause Of Death: Opioid Overdose
The singer Prince died of an opioid overdose, a US law enforcement official has told the Associated Press news agency on May 2, 2016. The official, who is close to the ... Read More