Articles
General Articles
- FDA’s Dilemma With The Opioid Pain Medication Zohydro ER – Forbes Article
- Magic Overdose Drug Works, But Demand And Price On The Rise – NPR article on Naloxone
- Naloxone – A Potential Life Saver – NIDA article
- Science of Addiction – NIDA general information for consumers on drugs, brains and behavior
Articles from OPG Meetings
June 17, 2015 – Focus on Benzodiazepines
- Benzodiazepine use and risk of dementia: prospective population based study
- Memory function in opioid-dependent patients treated with methadone or bupremorphine along with benzodiazepine
- Correlates of (inappropriate benzodiazepine use: the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety
- Persistence of cognitive effects after withdrawal from long-term benzodiazepine use: a meta-analysis
- Polypharmacy with Antipsychotics, Antidepressants, or Benzodiazepines and Mortality in Schizophrenia
- Polydrug abuse: A review of opioid and benzodiazepine combination use
July 15, 2015 – Discussion on OPG Strategic Directions
August 19, 2015 – Focus on Addiction
- The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction
- TED Talk: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
- Prescribing Naloxone – Instructions for Healthcare Professionals
- A providers guide to prescribing naloxone – San Francisco Department of Health
- Many Physicians Don’t Understand Key Facts about Prescription Opioid Addictions
- Link to SAMHSA’s Buprenorphine Information Center
Future OPG meeting (October?)
Dreamland – Link to Amazon where the book can be purchased