| September 27, 2019 |
| ‘Hundreds’ of New Vaping Illnesses Have Been Reported in the Last Week, CDC Says |
CNBC (09/24) – “Hundreds” of new cases of a vaping-related lung disease have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just in the past week, a top agency official told Congress on Tuesday. The CDC last week said the mysterious lung disease has sickened 530 people so far. Kansas officials confirmed the state’s second vaping death on Monday, bringing the total number of fatalities in the U.S. to nine. Read more
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| [California] Governor Newsom Gets Bills That Would Crack Down on Addiction Treatment Scams, Raise Standards |
| THE MERCURY NEWS (09/17) – In that unwieldy stack of newly proposed laws atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk: Four bills that aim to require licensing, reduce fraud and false advertising and raise standards in California’s notoriously under-regulated addiction treatment industry. “This has been a long time coming,” said reformer Ryan Hampton, author of “American Fix.” “Governor Newsom has the opportunity to make right what Governor Brown got wrong last session; and that’s to sign these bills immediately.” Read more |
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| NIH Awards Nearly $1 Billion in Research Grants to Battle Addiction, Chronic Pain |
| THE WASHINGTON POST (09/26) – The National Institutes of Health awarded nearly $1 billion on Thursday to battle addiction and chronic pain, the largest financial commitment to one program ever by the government’s premier biomedical research center. About 50 million adults suffer from chronic pain, and in 2018 about 10.3 million people aged 12 and older abused opioids, including heroin, NIH said. Read more |
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| Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy. Here's What It Means |
| USA TODAY (09/16) – Pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma is framing its bankruptcy filing as an opportunity to cut red tape and provide billions in settlement cash to curb the opioid crisis it's accused of facilitating. But the OxyContin maker's legal issues are far from over. Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy in White Plains, New York, late Sunday night, days after announcing a tentative deal to settle claims with about half the states and more than 1,000 local governments. The deal could be worth up to $12 billion over time; about $3 billion will come from the Sackler family, owners of the privately held drugmaker. Read more |
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| Study Suggests Spontaneous Brain Fluctuations May Be Why We Gamble |
| ADDICTION CENTER (09/26) – According to gambling industry consultant company H2 Gambling Capital, Americans lose nearly $120 billion a year to games of chance. Trying to understand why people put themselves into risky situations, like gambling after losing thousands of dollars, has stumped people for centuries. However, scientists point to one fact that accounts for such risks – human behavior is inherently variable. Even when faced with the same task repeatedly, humans often act in erratic and inconsistent ways, as do our brain fluctuations. Read more |
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| Senators Draft Bipartisan Bill to Ban Flavored E-cigarettes |
| THE HILL (09/19) – Senators are making a bipartisan push to ban flavored vaping products, following reports that the number of underage users of e-cigarettes has spiked. Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) have drafted legislation that would ban all flavors of e-cigarettes except tobacco, effective within 90 days of the bill being enacted. It also would attempt to crack down on refillable “e-liquid” cartridges. Read more |
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| As Addiction Becomes Epidemic, How Can Technology Improve Treatment Options? |
| INFORMATION AGE (09/26) – […] The field of medicine has taken a quantum leap in understanding and technology over the past few decades, and today is firmly rooted in effective, evidence-based treatments. Even so, the network of treatment and rehabilitation for those facing addiction remains far behind the curve. These limitations have been exposed recently, as the US contends with increasing rates of opioid addiction that stretch already-strained resources. Read more |
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| Some CBD Vapes Contain Street Drug Instead of the Real Thing |
| ASSOCIATED PRESS (09/16) – Some operators are cashing in on the CBD craze by substituting cheap and illegal synthetic marijuana for natural CBD in vapes and edibles such as gummy bears, an Associated Press investigation has found. Read more |
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| In Tiny Doses, An Addiction Medication Moonlights As A Treatment For Chronic Pain |
| NPR (09/23) – […] Recently, she joined a growing group of patients using an outside-the-box remedy: naltrexone. It is usually used to treat addiction, in a pill form for alcohol and as a pill or a monthly shot for opioids. As the medical establishment tries to do a huge U-turn after two disastrous decades of pushing long-term opioid use for chronic pain, scientists have been struggling to develop safe, effective alternatives. Read more |
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| Alarming Number of Heart Infections Tied to Opioid Epidemic |
| SCIENCEDAILY (09/18) –An alarming number of people nationwide are developing infections of either the heart's inner lining or valves, known as infective endocarditis, in large part, due to the current opioid epidemic. This new trend predominantly affects young, white, poor men who also have higher rates of HIV, hepatitis C and alcohol abuse, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the open access journal of the American Heart Association. Read more |
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| A Radical Approach to Confronting Addiction Puts Human Connection First |
| QUARTZ (09/19) – [...] And so Nicolaisen moved to Asheville, North Carolina, to create what she hoped would be a new kind of rehab—not a place that tried to fix broken-down addicts, but a place, informed by neurological research, that emphasized the importance of human relationships. A place that would seek to connect lots of people, addicted and not, in substantive ways. Read more |
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| Preference for Fentanyl Higher Among Young, White, Frequent Opioid Users |
| SCIENCEDAILY (09/18) – A minority of people who use illicit opioids indicated a preference for fentanyl, the super-potent synthetic opioid that accounts for much of the recent rise in U.S. overdose deaths, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study, based on surveys of 308 people who use opioids in Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, found that 27 percent indicated a preference for opioids containing fentanyl, and that people who prefer fentanyl are more likely to be younger, white, and daily users. Read more |
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| Gambling Addiction in Minnesota's Lao Community Is Mostly Hidden |
| MPR NEWS (09/25) – Gambling is a part of social life in Laotian culture, but not many talk about what to do when it becomes addictive. “Gambling is part of our culture, part of our family, we grow up from that. And we bring it here, to the United States,” said Sunny Chanthanouvong, executive director of the Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota. Read more |
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