AMERICAN OPIOIDS EPIDEMIC

Jason Good in Addiction
January 3, 2020

U.S. Currently Focused on “VapeGate”: Drug Crisis Is Old News

Lately, all the rage has been about vaping and the recent deaths allegedly caused by vaping. Since the first few cases made it on the news, tons of media outlets have covered the developing story as more and more cases came to light where people got sick and died, again allegedly, due to vaping.

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Julie in Drug Education
December 6, 2019

The Fourth Wave of the Drug Epidemic Has Hit

By now we pretty much all know the story of the United States addiction epidemic. What started out as a prescription pill problem, morphed into a heroin issue and then a fentanyl crisis. These three overlapping events have often been referred to as the “Three Waves of The United States Opioid Epidemic.” We have now entered into the “Fourth Wave”…

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Jason Good in Addiction
November 7, 2019

It’s No Longer a Drug Crisis: It’s an Overdose Crisis

What started off as a massive opioid problem, the current drug epidemic has changed gears yet again. When the opioid crisis started, we had a new group of addicts; those addicted to prescription painkillers.

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Jason Good in Addiction
November 5, 2019

Dayton Dealers Busted with Enough Fentanyl to Kill Entire State of Ohio

Stories like this seem to literally pop up every week. Since the drug crisis took off all those years ago, it became a daily chore to scroll through social media feeds just to see them clogged with “major drug busts” over here and “mass overdose situations” over there…

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Julie in Addiction
November 1, 2019

Sadly, Illicit Fentanyl Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon

Fentanyl: it’s cheap, it’s powerful and worst of all it’s deadly. The synthetic opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin was originally used in medical settings for terminally ill patients. With the rising popularity of opioids, fentanyl has made its way onto the illicit drug market and has been making a killing ever since, both figuratively and literally.

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Julie in Addiction
October 11, 2019

Doctor Sent to Prison for Illegally Prescribing Opioids

While it is true that most doctors want what is best for their patients there is no denying that there have been doctors out there who have put their greed above the well-being of others.

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Julie in Addiction
June 2, 2019

Pill Pushing Doctors Are Facing Legal Consequences for Criminal Behavior

In mid-April of 2019 sixty people were charged in connection with illegally prescribing and distributing addictive prescriptions for opioids and other drugs.

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Julie in Addiction
May 1, 2019

A Flood of Fentanyl Is Causing Mass Destruction throughout the United States

It has become a grim reality that going to the funeral of a friend has become commonplace for most young adults. Too many people have begun to lose count of how many people they know who have died from a drug overdose.

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Julie in Addiction
January 24, 2019

The Three Waves of the United States Opioid Overdose Epidemic

Some people are still in doubt that an addiction problem exists on a national level. However, when looking at the statistics the numbers are grim.

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Julie in Addiction
January 23, 2019

The Odds of Dying from a Drug Overdose Are Higher Than Dying from a Car Accident

A recent study conducted by the National Safety Council came up with some alarming numbers. The number of preventable injuries and deaths in The United States for 2017 were analyzed and showed that the odds of a United States citizen dying from a drug overdose are higher than the odds of dying from a car accident.

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