03 Oct How The Opioid Epidemic Affects the Economy
When discussing America’s opioid crisis it is difficult to see past the titanic human price addiction to these drugs has cost our country. Abuse of heroin, fentanyl and their doctor...
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03 Oct How Addictive Are Opioids?
Opioids are a group of drugs whose medical purpose is to treat acute and chronic pain. These are drugs like the painkillers: hydrocodone, fentanyl, and oxycodone. Opioid use is on...
05 Sep What Can Georgia Learn from Buffalo, NY’s Progressive Opioid Solution?
Credit: Family Counseling Services The United States of America consumes nearly 90% of the world’s opioid supply. When taking into account that the US amounts to 4.4% of the world’s population,...
04 Sep The Shifting Demographic of Opioid Users in Georgia
The opioid epidemic is here and it’s ugly. Opioids are now the number one killer for people under 30 and account for more deaths annually than auto accidents. Having scaled...
30 Aug Georgia and the Medical Marijuana Dilemma
For more than seventy years, the American government has followed the most monumental failure in policy since the disastrous thirteen-year experiment with the prohibition of alcohol. We speak of course,...
29 Aug Drug Crime Statistics in Georgia
Georgia is a unique state when it comes to conducting research. Criminal career research is no exception. While Georgia is one of the most rapidly growing states across the US,...
07 Aug Studies Show: Fentanyl Now Responsible for Half of Overdoses in US
When police release a statement claiming that they’d prefer to find ‘heroin over fentanyl,’ then given the nature of heroin, you know we’re dealing with something serious. Having been introduced...
04 Aug Are Prescription Drugs The Biggest Epidemic in Georgia?
Nowadays, Georgia currently has 262 addiction rehab facilities and 183 sober living facilities for alcoholics. The point is: this state is not a novice when it comes to drug addiction....
03 Aug The Different Types of Fentanyl Terrorizing Georgia
People are finally shining a light on the severity of the drug problem in Georgia. To shed some insight on the subject: in 2014, drug overdoses took more lives in...
02 Aug What is the Difference Between Heroin vs Fentanyl?
Opioid addiction has grown more voluminous and rampant over the years, with the prescription rate in the US alone quadrupling from 1999 to 2010. There’s a large list of arguments...