Blog Posts in 2016

Back in the early days of the opioid epidemic, few people if any had the idea that the opioid painkiller OxyContin was going to precipitate the ...

There's a heated discussion going on among the country's primary care physicians, addiction specialists and everyone else involved in addiction ...

If you have elderly family members or friends on any medications, it would be a good idea to check what those medications are and what dosages they ...

(Novus writes inspirational stories of people in the news who have overcome addiction. This is not to infer that these people are connected to Novus ...

Back in 2001, OxyContin was seen as the prime force driving the fledgling prescription opioid epidemic across America. In West Virginia, addictions ...

A new trend exposes the use of prescription painkillers in the U.S.; the use of opioid-based medication now exceeds that of tobacco. This is based on ...

Americans 65 years of age and older make up less than 15 percent of the population, but they consume more than 30 percent of all prescribed ...

Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia have filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that two pharmaceutical Suboxone Drugmaker companies have ...

Talk about bad parenting. A four-year-old boy was found in the backseat of a car while a woman and a male driver were unconscious in the front seat. ...