Drug Abuse

3 Drugs You Should Never Mix With Suboxone Suboxone is a popularly approved medication to treat opiate withdrawal. It is one of two forms of the medication buprenorphine, which is an opiate agonist originally developed to treat pain problems. Suboxone works by binding to opiate receptors in the... Learn More

Controversial Super Bowl PSA on Heroin Receives Mixed Reactions Author: Shernide Delva If you were one of the millions of Americans who watched last night’s super bowl, you might have seen a heroin PSA play during the commercial break. A super bowl PSA called “All American Girl,” ran on... Learn More

President Obama Seeks Over $1 Billion to Combat Drug Epidemic Author: Shernide Delva President Barack Obama will make a budget request to Congress for $1 billion dollars to fight drug abuse and overdoses. The amount of overdoses in the United States is currently at an all-time high. More than 47,000... Learn More

Pharma Company Will Now Offer Free Narcan Nasal Spray to All High Schools [caption id="attachment_18867" align="aligncenter" width="452"] (This content is being used for illustrative purposes only; any person depicted in the content is a model)[/caption] Author: Shernide Delva With the prescription pain killer epidemic spreading all over the country, high schools are faced... Learn More

Kevin Hart Opens Up About His Father’s Drug Addiction and Learning to Let Go Author: Shernide Delva While driving home from work, I did my regular routine of tuning to The Howard Stern Show on my car radio on and was pleasantly surprised to hear Kevin Hart doing an interview. Being a fan of Hart, I was excited... Learn More

Congress Investigating Big Pharma Price Gouging Author: Justin Mckibben Anyone remember the outrage that came about in recent months when it was publicly announced that Big Pharma companies were purchasing the rights to manufacture and distribute life-saving medications and then gouging the prices at astronomical and... Learn More

Drug for Seizures Gabapentin Shown to Treat Marijuana Addiction Author: Shernide Delva When scientists were creating the drug gabapentin to treat epilepsy, they probably did not imagine the drug being used to prevent people from smoking marijuana. Yet, here we are… Researchers have recently discovered that the drug gabapentin, currently on... Learn More

Massachusetts Leads Media Campaign to Reduce Stigma of Addiction Author: Shernide Delva Just last week, Massachusetts kicked off a five week campaign to combat the stigma of addiction. The campaign was launched in order to educate the public about addiction and the harms of stigmatizing behaviors. Unfortunately, the stigma... Learn More

Child Neglect and Abuse Rises Alongside Drug Addiction Author: Shernide Delva In Fayetteville, North Carolina, there is a distinct trend of both child abuse and neglect rising along with cases of drug addiction. Fayette County Prosecutor Larry Harrah says the number of neglect cases associated with addicted parents... Learn More

Travis Barker Talks About Sobriety, Fear And Sanity Author: Shernide Delva Travis Barker recently talked to Billboard about his path to recovery and the several bottoms that he had to overcome in his life as the drummer in the popular pop-punk band Blink 182. In the late 90s and... Learn More

Is Cheese Really as Addictive as Drugs…or Nah? Author: Shernide Delva The controversy has taken over social media and news outlets everywhere. Could cheese be just as addictive as heroin and crack? Let’s get to the bottom of this. I admit. I, too, am a cheese fanatic. The... Learn More

Why Some Keep Smoking Cigarettes after the First Try and Others Don’t Author: Shernide Delva There’s a new study that explains why people continue to smoke cigarettes after their first try. As a non-smoker, this researched sparked my interest. I've been known to ask my friends that smoke why they picked up... Learn More

3 Drugs You Should Never Mix With Suboxone

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