For the last twenty years or so, it’s gotten harder to deny society’s cell phone addiction to the small “super-computers” everyone carries in their pockets, purses, backpacks, or in holsters hooked to their belt. More often than not, people have their smartphones out, eyes glued […]
August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day, a time for people to share the story of someone they’ve lost to drugs and support others who are struggling because of a recent loss. The day of awareness is entering its 20th consecutive year, having gotten its […]
The news cycle moves so quickly these days that many people likely missed the most recent breastfeeding headlines and controversy. After the United Nations health assembly in June 2018 called on governments to protect, promote and support breastfeeding,” the Trump administration came under fire for […]
Technological advances have revolutionized the healthcare industry. From the stethoscope early on to pacemakers, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), laparoscopic surgery that’s less invasive and, well, the list goes on and on. Some experts even suggest that 3D printers will be able to replicate human organs […]
In June 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the way for Epidiolex, a cannabis-based medication for epileptic patients, making history in the process. This is the first time the FDA has ever approved a drug derived directly from marijuana. Marinol (dronabinol) is […]
A certain segment of the American population, though fewer as the years go by, will remember the Atari 2600, the first home videogame console on the market, released around 1980. Obviously, this was pre-internet when it wasn’t uncommon to see at least a few neighborhood […]
Most adults have probably heard this saying. Call it a bit of “collegiate wisdom,” the myth that drinking “liquor before beer, you’re in the clear, but beer before liquor, you’ve never been sicker.” Maybe the slightest whiff of truth in this urban legend is that […]
One of the most important power-players in mental health and wellbeing is the neurotransmitter serotonin. It allows the body and mind to manage mood, regulate sleep, and appetite, and even reduce physical pain. What might come as a surprise to anyone that’s not a nutritional […]
The reason benzodiazepines, such as Xanax, are popular is because they work. The sedative effect suppresses neurotransmitters in the brain responsible for fear, worry, and a sense of danger. The medication also boosts confidence. So, for patients that suffer from panic attacks or other anxiety […]
A report put out by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found more than half of all opioid-related fatalities, in just a five month period of 2016, involved fentanyl. Heroin mixed with Fentanyl is responsible for the spike in overdose deaths since 2013 […]
