WellLife Network Provides Vital Services to Stem the Tide of Opioid Addiction

• By: Amy Platt, PhD, LCSW-R WellLife Network
• April 16th, 2020
• addiction treatment, fentanyl, heroin, medication-assisted therapy, opioid epidemic, opioid overdose, opioids, substance use disorders
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Opium is an extract of the exudate derived from seedpods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Cultivated in the ancient civilizations of Persia, Egypt and Mesopotamia, archaeological evidence and fossilized poppy seeds suggest that Neanderthal man may have used the opium poppy over thirty...