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by Bruce Brown | October 6, 2022 | Health
Covid-19 pandemic lock-downs didn’t stem the tragedy of substance abuse disorder (SUD). Unfortunately, according to the latest findings from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the number of drug overdose deaths increased 28.5% in the...
by Bruce Brown | March 19, 2021 | Health
The opioid addiction epidemic didn’t disappear during the COVID-10 pandemic. There’s no vaccine that protects people from substance use disorder. We’ve written about a wide variety of technologies aimed at helping people with addiction. For example,...
by Bruce Brown | December 14, 2017 | General News, Medical
Telemedicine’s new-kid-on-the-block status as a healthcare service delivery mode sounds like a perfect solution for a rapidly growing number of diseases, health conditions, and patient circumstances. Without broad stakeholder acknowledgment, support, and...
by Jim Ware | October 18, 2017 | General News, Medical
Substance abuse treatment is now as close as your mobile device. Previously, “treatment as usual” (TAU) consisted of face-to-face counseling. A sub-group of patients in the study, those who weren’t abstinent at the start, showed an almost five-fold...
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by Bruce Brown | December 1, 2016 | General News, Medical
Treating drug addiction remains difficult and costly. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 40 to 60 percent of addicts relapse. In the U.S. alone, drug abuse costs more than $600 billion annually, but treatment costs average $4,700 a year versus the...
