Dr. Brian Binetti, a bariatric and general surgeon, has implemented a non-opioid approach to help his patients manage pain after surgery. Dr. Binetti shares information about effective non-opioid pain management options, and how these alternatives are instrumental in helping patients recover. READ MORE

Dozens of medical professionals in seven states were charged Wednesday with participating in the illegal prescribing of more than 32 million pain pills, including doctors who prosecutors said traded sex for prescriptions and a dentist who unnecessarily pulled teeth from patients to justify giving them opioids. The 60 people indicted include 31 doctors, seven pharmacists, ...

How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle. The offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab for a week, get $1,000 in cash. It was early 2017, and Brianne, a 20-year-old from a woody Atlanta suburb, had come to South Florida to leave her heroin addiction behind. At a ...

Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He became yet another victim killed by a flood of illicit fentanyl smuggled from Mexico by the Sinaloa cartel into the Southwest — a profitable new business for the drug gang that has made the ...

Counties where doctors got more meals, trips and consulting fees from opioid makers had higher overdose deaths involving prescription opioids. A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic. It found that counties where opioid manufacturers offered a large ...

(Note: The following article was published on Thefix.com. TooMuchRx.org can not confirm the accuracy of the contents or endorse the treatments contained within.) By Jeanene Swanson 09/08/14 The Fix lists some holistic alternatives that are playing increasingly important roles in addiction treatment.   It’s safe to say that alternative treatments for addiction are no longer, actually, alternative in the ...

Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, federal health officials announced, with more than 18,000 overdose deaths in 2016, the most recent year for which statistics are available. The overprescription of opioids is leveling off, but deaths continue rising, says Dr. Marc Fishman of the Maryland Treatment Centers. He talks about addiction, treatment and ...