Expectant mothers taking many common antidepressants need no longer worry the medication may harm their child’s future behavioral or cognitive neurodevelopment, according to a new study of over 145,000 women and their children across the United States followed for up...
Health officials are still urging Americans to get a bivalent booster nearly a month after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID-19 shots targeting the omicron variant. A look at cases and deaths: 13 states had more cases in the latest week than in the...
As of 2017, people worldwide are purchasing plastic water bottles at the rate of 1 million bottles per minute, with the average American consuming 45 gallons of bottled water apiece every year. And though bottled water sales have continued to skyrocket since 2010 ―...
Please read Dr. Crystal’s article in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment titled, “Non-prescribed buprenorphine preceding treatment intake and clinical outcomes for opioid use disorder.” Buprenorphine, the most frequently prescribed medication...
As the wave of legalization of medical marijuana and recreational cannabis sweeps the nation, many of us who work in the addiction field are worried. Legalization resulted in an increased availability of marijuana and a decreased stigma around using it, and those two...
