The Opioid Addiction Epidemic: An Interview with Andrew Kolodny, MD, National Expert on the Current Opioid Addiction Epidemic in the United States

• By: Ira H. Minot, LMSW Behavioral Health News
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction, addiction stigma, addiction treatment, medication-assisted treatment, opioid addiction, opioid epidemic, opioid prescribing, overdose prevention, prescription opioids
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Ira Minot (IM): We are honored to have this opportunity to speak with you Dr. Kolodny. Our readers are anxious to learn about the current opioid epidemic. Andrew Kolodny (AK): I am very pleased that Behavioral Health News is devoting this issue to the current opioid epidemic. Opioid addiction is...

Unintended Consequences: Are We Inadvertently Increasing Heroin Overdose Deaths?

• By: Richard Juman, PsyD TheFix.com
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction treatment, heroin use, opioid addiction, opioid epidemic, opioid prescribing, overdose deaths, prescription drug monitoring, prescription opioids
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Two years ago, The Fix spearheaded an effort to highlight the public health epidemic caused by the overprescribing of opioid pain medications which resulted in the tens of thousands of overdose deaths that were making front page news. The epidemic was iatrogenic- “caused by physicians”- in...