Join Recovery Unplugged Chief Strategy Officer Paul Pellinger at Nova Southeastern University as he discusses music-based addiction treatment and signs copies of his latest book Music Is Our Medicine. Released ...
We’ve all seen those after-school public-service announcements about drug addiction prevention is everyone’s responsibility: the cartoon animal that simplifies addiction as a matter of choice; the abbreviat...
The toll of the opioid addiction epidemic continues to mount. The latest victim, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, is the business community. Use of prescription painkillers by Americans with...
We’ve heard time and again the potential obstacles in relationships in which one person is in addiction recovery (trust issues, fears of relapse, potential aggression, etc.). It’s also common for people in ...
In a move that has surprised occupants of both sides of the political aisle, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell announced this week that he will be introducing a bill that removes hemp from the Controlled Substan...
On Monday, President Trump gave his first-ever speech as Chief Executive fully devoted to addressing opioid addiction prevention. The venue for the address was, appropriately enough, Manchester Community Colleg...
As early as Tuesday, the Trump Administration will announce that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will have new oversight. The administration has chosen renowned AIDS researcher and public-h...
Manchester Community College will be the venue at which President Trump unveils a new proposal for dealing with the American opioid crisis. Supporters and critics alike have been clamoring for the President to ...
In a bit of expected yet unwelcome news, opioid overdoses have risen in the United States. Despite all the hand wringing from stakeholders and the seemingly empty promises to get this public health issue under ...
Recovery Unplugged Represents in Full Force at the 2018 Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival What do Arcade Fire, the Flaming Lips, Snoop Dogg and all Recovery Unplugged have in common? They were all on hand at t...
In the current addiction treatment landscape, only about a third of all facilities offer medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as part of their care options; this number is about to change under new guidelines fr...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has codified and published a set of guidelines and best practices for dealing with medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction. Desi...
It’s been almost exactly 13 months to the day since President Trump was sworn in. Among his myriad campaign promises was a pledge to effectively and sensibly deal with the opioid overdose epidemic sweeping th...
By now, most, if not all, Americans are painfully aware of the tragedy that befell the Parkland, FL community on February 14. A day on which students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were worried about t...
Pharmaceutical giant and OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP announced this past Saturday that it will stop marketing powerful prescription opioids to doctors and also cut sales staff by practically half. T...
At the end of last month, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigned after it was discovered that she purchased stock in the tobacco industry; a clear conflict of inter...