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People with Heroin Addiction Have Neurological Traits Similar to People with Alzheimer’s Disease

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:53:49 +0000

A recent report has established an astonishing fact – that people who are suffering from an addiction to heroin have a similar neurological and chemical make up within their brain as people who are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. This could mean that treatments that have been studied with the aim of improving the condition of …

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Overdose Deaths Reach Record High – Pandemic to Blame?

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:45:35 +0000

Between June 2019 and June 2020, just over 81,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States, according to figures published by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those figures make for grim reading – that’s the highest number of fatal overdoses recorded in the United States in any twelve month …

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Experts Point Out Increasing Overdose Concerns in Santa Cruz County

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 19:27:09 +0000

2020 was a terrible year for most people. Although it’s looking as if 2021 will be a better year in terms of COVID-19, the details emerging that concern the ‘standard’ health issues we all have to face make for grim reading. In Santa Cruz in 2019 there were, thankfully, only three overdoses from fentanyl – …

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Pennsylvania Must Renew its Fight Against Opioids

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:27:48 +0000

Finally, the US opioid epidemic has been overshadowed by something else … but not in a good way. Since the early weeks of 2020 COVID-19 has been the health issue that has overtaken everything else in terms of life threatening illnesses. Now, thanks to the creation and roll-out of several vaccines, it seems we are …

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Details About Joe Biden’s Opioid Epidemic Plan

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:38:01 +0000

After a shaky few weeks, Joe Biden has re-emerged to become the front runner in the Democrats’ battle to select their candidate to challenge Donald Trump for the presidency of the United States in November 2020. The former Vice President has put together the most detailed proposal on curbing the current opioid crisis when compared …

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How Virginia Communities are Confronting the Opioid Epidemic

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:26:46 +0000

The United States recorded record numbers of opioid related overdose deaths in 2017, and although that figure dropped slightly in 2018, around 130 Americans die each and every day from an opioid overdose. First came prescribed opioids, then came street opioids, and now there are synthetic opioids. It’s a battle that the US needs to …

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North Carolina Startup Using Technology to Tackle Opioid Epidemic

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:00:01 +0000

A company in North Carolina has created a unified, cloud-based platform which is being hailed as the first example of global technology that provides assisted therapy in order to address the problem of opioid abuse. The startup’s app is called opiAID and has been created by Stan Martin and David Reeser. Of the current opioid …

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Death Toll Due to Opioid Crisis Could Be Much Higher Than Originally Thought

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:53:51 +0000

Disturbing news is emerging that suggests the death toll due to the opioid crisis in the United States may be much higher than has been previously thought. It has even been suggested that the total number of people who have died via opioid related overdoses could be over one quarter higher. It is currently estimated …

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Michigan Puts $10 Million Towards Curbing Opioid Epidemic

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 22:41:21 +0000

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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How Preventing Mental Health Disorders Could Help Curb Opioid Crisis

Dr. Julia Aharonov — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:50:42 +0000

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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