Beth Tesmond, MHS, CADC, MISA, Addictions Program Coordinator
by Beth Tesmond, MHS, CADC, MISA, Addictions Program Coordinator
We write often about the epidemic of opiate abuse throughout our country. The mass addiction, broken families, the death toll rising. But one key group of victims that has seemingly gone by the wayside until now: babies, those unfortunate infants born to mothers who are opiate addicted and therefore, are brought into this world with […]
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by Beth Tesmond, MHS, CADC, MISA, Addictions Program Coordinator
Abuse of control prescription drugs now exceeds abuse of all illegal drugs combined, except marijuana. Many of those in the addiction field believe that oxycontin is at the very heart of the vast opioid drug addiction epidemic currently seen in the United States. Not only is it highly addictive, but it is vastly over prescribed. […]
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