As November comes to an end and the holiday season swings into full gear, the list of party invitations begin to pile up. There are the office parties, neighborhood-block parties and any number of friends and family that take pride in throwing their annual ugly-sweater holiday party or whatever it might be. Then, lest we […]
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new weapon in the fight against opioid use disorder (OUD) at the end of November. Sublocade is a once-a-month injectable form of buprenorphine, a medication used in treating people with moderate to severe opioid addiction. “Given the scale of the opioid crisis, with millions of Americans already affected, […]
Over prescribing prescription painkillers, such as Oxycontin, Hydrocodone, Percocet and any other number of other opioid medications created an epidemic of addiction and overdoses that communities across the nation continue to battle. While health care experts and legislators search for a solution to the issue, others are focusing on ways to manage different types of […]
