Category: Addiction

The Emergency Department and Overdose Prevention

August 25, 2015 at 10:07 am

Boston Medical Center Responds to Opioid Overdose Epidemic and Public Health Emergency The Boston Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) programs began in 2006 when the Public Health Commission (BPHC), passed a regulation that authorized intranasal naloxone distribution by trained, nonmedical public health workers and EMS personnel under a standing order from Dr. Peter […]

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Addiction and the Brain

May 2, 2012 at 9:33 am

by Llaen Coston-Clark “It’s like driving a car without brakes,” explains Dr. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA.  Morley Safer of CBS’s 60 Minutes recently interviewed Volkow  about her research on addiction in Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break (April 29, 2012).  They touched upon addiction as a chronic illness, changes in the brain, […]

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