Just out this week is a special report from the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: “Reducing the U.S. Demand for Illegal Drugs“. I haven’t yet had time to read the entire sixty-page report, but something in the summarized findings caught my attention: “Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers now outnumber deaths involving heroin and cocaine combined…”
For true stories of the people we’re here talking about every week, check out photographer Chris Armade’s series “Faces of Addiction“.
Dirk Hanson at Addiction Inbox reports on the conference currently being held at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, which we mentioned last week. Go here to read his notes on the opening day addresses.
This blogger voices concern that “recovery” is “becoming a dinosaur”, and worries that the primary-care system won’t be able to deal with behavioral and psychiatric illnesses in an integrated model. While I’m dubious about “recovery”, she has valid concerns about our currently overburdened medical system struggling under a paradigm shift. What do you think? Tell us in the comments whether you have confidence in the rise of “integrated care”!
From a columnist at Psychology Today, here’s a quick rundown of “bath salts”; what they (probably) are, what they do, and why they’ve been the center of such hype in recent weeks.
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