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    Category: What’s News

    The What’s News blog is a collection of hand-picked articles from the electronic media, addressing addiction and the family. Please understand that we provide these links for your information, but the ideas and opinions expressed therein do not represent those of Allies in Recovery.

    White Patients Receive Opioid Addiction Medication at More Than Twice the Rate of Black Patients

    In a new report, the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that Black and Native American patients struggling with opioid use were less than half as…
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    rredick August 2, 2023

    Bromazolam, Delivered By Mail, Is Killing Canadians in Startling Numbers

    Over 20,000 Canadians have died of opioid-related causes since 2020. Many of these deaths involved opioids mixed with Bromazolam or similar illicit se…
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    rredick July 25, 2023

    Lessons From Risk (the Board Game) May Help You Change Your Life

    Eric Zimmer barely survived his twentieth year, when his struggle with heroin was at its worst. In this TED talk, he looks back on the choices he made…
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    rredick June 20, 2023
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    New Data Proves It: You’re Not Alone

    A Pew Research Center survey gives us another sharp statistical window on substance use in America. Its findings may surprise you. 46% of Americans ha…
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    AlliesInRecovery May 17, 2023
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    A New Study Reveals How the Brains of Family Members Respond to Their Loved One

    It’s no mystery that humans subjected to various stressors can respond in similar ways. But why is this so? What are the neurological mechanisms? We…
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    AlliesInRecovery May 3, 2023
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    Debunked in 3 ½ Minutes: Harmful Myths About Family and Recovery

    It can’t be said too often: substance use disorder is a disease. Yet unlike nearly all other diseases, it’s still often treated as a moral failure…
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    AlliesInRecovery April 12, 2023
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    Mental Health: Just How Much Have We Got Wrong?

    Everyone knows that great ideas can spread. But bad ones can also “hang around so long that you can forget you have the option of questioning them.â…
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    rredick February 1, 2023
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    Opioid Treatment Medications Will Be Permanently More Accessible Under New Federal Rules

    Covid-19 pushed U.S. patient care to the brink. In response, take-home policies for opioid treatment medications use were temporarily relaxed. There 
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    rredick January 25, 2023
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    A Vaccine That Blocks the Effects of Fentanyl Created In the Lab

    Testing on humans has yet to begin, but the vaccine still represents a breakthrough. As fentanyl deaths hit an all-time high in the United States, the…
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    rredick January 11, 2023
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    At-Home, Computerized CBT Reduces Drug Use as Much as CBT Delivered in a Clinical Setting, Study Finds 

    Self-administering CBT via a computer training program helps as many people reduce their drug use as CBT delivered in person by a clinician, according…
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    rredick December 28, 2022
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