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Monday, March 25, 2024

How to Find a Suboxone Clinic in Brick, NJ

When a family member, friend, or someone important to you has opioid use disorder (OUD) and needs professional support with medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with medications for opioid use disorder...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

What Are Fentanyl Test Strips – And How Do I Use Them?

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that fentanyl test strips (FTS) are an inexpensive, easy-to-use method to test for the presence of the powerful, illicit opioid fentanyl in...
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Monday, March 18, 2024

How to Find a Suboxone Clinic in Toms River, NJ

People who need treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) at a Suboxone clinic in Tom’s River, NJ should know that the latest and most effective evidence-based treatment for OUD...
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Monday, March 11, 2024

Harm Reduction in California Part II: The California Harm Reduction Initiative (CHRI)

In Part II of our Harm Reduction in California series, we’ll discuss the California Harm Reduction Initiative (CHRI), a program designed to mitigate the damaging effects of substance use...
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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Harm Reduction in California Part I: The SOS Workgroup

The drug overdose crisis in the United States has claimed the lives of more than one million people over the past 25 years, and there may be one way...
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Monday, January 29, 2024

Harm Reduction in Addiction Treatment: What You Need to Know, Part Two

In part one of this article – read it here – we introduced the concept of harm reduction in addiction treatment. We provided a brief history of harm reduction,...
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Monday, January 22, 2024

What are the Social Determinants of Health?

As part of our Harm Reduction Series, this article addresses and explores a related topic: the social determinants of health. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
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Thursday, January 11, 2024

What is ISO? Illicit Drugs and Opioid Overdose

The new year is here, and one thing that means is that it’s time to examine the confirmed and verified data from 2022 and 2023: this year, among other...
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Nitazenes: A New Factor in the Opioid Crisis

By Lori Ryland, Ph.D., LP, CAADC, CCS, BCBA-D, Chief Clinical Officer, Pinnacle Treatment Centers Nitazenes are a class of opioid drug invented in the 1950s so strong scientists...
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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Contingency Management, Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), and Stimulant Misuse

In 2023, the opioid epidemic is still with us, with overdose fatalities increasing every year, and recent data suggest that contingency management for people on medication for opioid use...
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