All posts by Amy Kenney
Come to an event for family and friends of those with an addiction
Maine physician gets national award for his work in addiction medicine
My personal loss puts the suffering of too many others in perspective
What I’ve learned over the last three months about addiction
For the past three months, I have been reading and learning, researching and asking questions, and trying to better understand the opiate epidemic. Remember when heroin was associated mainly with celebrities? Now it’s as common as any other standard painkiller. I started out as a true layman to this issue, wondering what I was getting […]
This Wednesday, share your thoughts at a forum on opiate and heroin use
Learn about the science behind drug investigations
Poll: We blame docs and patients alike for opioid crisis, and prefer treatment to jail
Americans place the blame for the opiate epidemic on providers nearly as much as they do on those with substance use disorders, according to an eye-opening poll released recently by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and STAT, which is produced by Boston Globe Media. The survey also found that people are more supportive of treatment, not punishment, for people […]