by Tom Barrett | Jun 20, 2017 | Opioid Crisis
The US Poison Control Center receives nearly 1/2 million calls each year because of young children accidentally getting into medicine. “It happened so fast.” That’s what young mother Billie Lombardo said. Like many parents, Mrs. Lombardo thought...
by Tom Barrett | May 16, 2017 | Opioid Crisis
For millennia, opioids (natural or synthetic opium-like drugs) have been regarded as the most effective treatment for pain. The earliest reference to opium growth and use is in 3400 B.C., when the poppy plant was cultivated in lower Mesopotamia. The ancient Sumerians...
by Tom Barrett | Apr 4, 2017 | Opioid Crisis
America has a serious rural drug abuse problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), overdoses from drug abuse in rural areas reached epidemic proportions in 2015. In fact, death rates from overdoses in rural areas now outpace the historically higher...
