New research on the immune system’s role in addiction may help scientists develop a drug to treat and prevent opioid addiction, including addiction to prescription painkillers. Focusing on the immune system’s response to opioids such as morphine, researchers from the...

The White House 2012 National Drug Control Strategy continues the administration’s focus on substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery, including the prevention of prescription drug abuse. As noted in the White House executive summary, the strategy includes continued efforts to...

Published in the September 2009 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Most alcoholics start drinking during their teen years, but the disease can also strike those who begin using alcohol at a younger age – and experts say the problem often...

Published in the June 2009 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter It is estimated that 7.8% of the population in the United States has diabetes. There is a substantial amount of education on this disease and its symptoms and complications in...

Published in the December 2008 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter The one or two glasses of wine you drink at the occasional meal when you dine out are no big deal, but what about the standard two glasses of wine...

Published in the September 2008 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter This is one definition of alcoholism (or you may substitute drug addiction) that may help us to understand a bit better why the alcoholic acts the way he or she...

Published in the December 2007 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Intervention: Breaking the Cycle of Dependency Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects 7% of people nationally, and, as health care professionals, we have been trained very well on how...

Published in the July 2007 Washington State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter The Washington Recovery Assistance Program for Pharmacy (WRAPP) seeks to protect the health and safety of the public while acting as a health resource and support of rehabilitation to...

Published in the July 2007 Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Leslie Patatanian, PharmD, DPh, clinical pharmacy specialist at Integris Medical Center, shared a letter with the Board from DEA stating that infants and children suffering Infant Abstinence Syndrome (IAS)...

Published in the March 2007 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter On January 26-27, 2007, the seventh annual Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addiction and Substance Abuse (CAPTASA) conference was held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lexington,...

Published in the December 2006 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter Being a pharmacist today can be a very rewarding career. Often pharmacists are the most accessible health care professionals, and they possess unique knowledge of both health conditions and medications...

Published in the March 2006 Kentucky Board of Pharmacy Newsletter We all know that we may see patients who are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Do we recognize it in them? Can we say we would recognize this disease in a...