Michigan is now really putting up a fight against the opioid crisis. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced that a further $10 million in funding will be used to help tackle the state’s problems with opioid dependency and its associated effects on multiple fronts. The main areas where this funding will be used includes increasing access …
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When people think about mental health disorders, they typically only think about the extremes. Thanks to the movies, a person with a mental health disorder would be seen as an inmate at the kind of institution portrayed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for example. In truth, most mental health disorders are much less …
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A doctor in Georgia, who has been described as one of the “worst offenders in the opioid crisis” by his local community, has been sentenced to 20 years in detention for over-prescription of opioids and health care fraud. Dr. Frank H. Bynes, Jr, 69, of Savannah, Georgia, was found guilty in October last year by …
Read more Georgia Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Contributing to Opioid Crisis
The battle between several states in the US affected by the current opioid epidemic and those accused of helping cause the opioid epidemic wages on. In February, a collective of opioid drug-makers offered to settle with the 21 states currently filing charges against them, for a sum of $18 billion. After very little deliberation, the …
Read more 21 States Reject Offer From Opioid Drugmakers to Settle Opioid Lawsuit
The opiate-related death rate in the state of Michigan reached an all time high in 2017 at over two thousand tragic deaths, up from five hundred deaths in 2007. As a result, local mental health and substance abuse treatment centers are trying to reach as many patients as possible and have decided to take opioid …
Read more Michigan Seeing Success Fighting Opioid Abuse in the Emergency Rooms
The opioid epidemic has hit all fifty states in the United States and now our neighbors in Canada are also reporting a serious spike in opioid related deaths, with more than 14,000 in the last four years and more than 17,000 hospitalizations during the same period of time. The biggest problem seems to be fentanyl, …
At Advanced Rapid Detox, we are always searching for ways that enhance the treatment process for our detox patients. Often times for many of our patients, it’s the first step of the recovery process that is the hardest. They understand that fear and pain make up a large portion of their time. At Advanced Rapid …
Read more Company Testing New Device to Help Cut Down on Opioid Withdrawal
At Advanced Rapid Detox, our priority is our clients here in the United States, but we feel that it is important to take notice of how opioid use is impacting poor countries around the world. This epidemic is not just happening here locally. It’s a crisis that is happening all over the world. Medication is …