Anti-Drug Vaccines
Drug addiction is a serious problem in the United States and worldwide. There are anti-drug vaccines in development to combat drug addiction and they have advanced to clinical trials12. [...]
Managing Pain in a New Paradigm
Treating pain also has led to a major unintended consequence: a reliance on addictive pills that has created one of the largest heath crises of our time. The 2017 article, How good [...]
Stimulants on Track to Surpass Opioid Misuse in Nevada
The use of stimulants has been rising for the past several years in the United States. These drugs can make people more alert, increase their attention, and raise their blood pressure, heart rate [...]
Medication Assisted Treatment: The Basics in Nevada
Seventy-two thousand deaths: the estimated number of people in the US who died from drug overdoses in 2017. This amounts to over 190 deaths per day. Nearly 2/3 of these deaths were connected to [...]
What the Latest Research Says about Recovery, Stigma, and the Language We Use
What the Latest Research Says about Recovery, Stigma, and the Language We Use A recently published study out of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine provides further support [...]
Supporting Recovery: What Recent Research Tells Us
Supporting Recovery: What Recent Research Tells Us September is Recovery Month. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) working definition of recovery is: “a [...]
Sex Trafficking and The Game
Sex Trafficking and the Game For decades Nevada held the distinction of being the divorce capital of the United States, the only state with legalized gambling, liberal drinking laws, and a [...]
