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Anchor lead: The Surgeon General has issued a report on substance abuse, Elizabeth Tracey reports Use of opioids is just one of the issues in the recently released Surgeon General’s report on addiction, which also covers multiple other drugs, including …
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Anchor lead: Should the Drug Enforcement Agency be concerned about kratom? Elizabeth Tracey reports Kratom is an herbal concoction sold mostly in head shops in the US, formed from the leaves of a coffee-related plant native to southeast Asia. Now …
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Anchor lead: What are the barriers to the use of buprenorphine for opioid addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports Buprenorphine helps people kick the opioid habit, but it is a prescription drug that requires some work for a physician to use. That …
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Anchor lead: Why aren’t more doctors using buprenorphine to help people overcome opiates? Elizabeth Tracey reports Buprenorphine is one drug that helps people who are trying to overcome opioid addiction, but a recent research letter in the Journal of the …
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This week’s topics include end of life care in a spectrum of illness, dementia and blood transfusions, coprescribing of naloxone with opioids, and treatment of binge eating disorder. Program notes: 0:31 End of life treatments 1:32 Compared with cancer 2:33 …
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Anchor lead: People are using the over the counter medication Imodium as an opiate substitute, Elizabeth Tracey reports. People who are addicted to opiate medications have been turning to the over the counter medication called loperamide as a legal and …
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Anchor lead: An implantable medicine may help opioid addicts, Elizabeth Tracey reports Beating opioid addiction may now be easier with the use of an existing medication called buprenorphine, in a newly FDA approved formulation that is implanted under the skin. …
