Blog Posts in 2018

A new study from the Mayo Clinic says the number of opioid prescriptions across the U.S. have not declined, and in fact have remained relatively ...

The epidemic of opioid overdose deaths across America has not responded to most efforts to slow it down, never mind stop it for good. The major reason ...

Approximately 42 percent of millennials reportedly know someone dealing with an addiction to opioids personally according to a recent NBC ...

A pair of studies published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggest that recent reductions in opioid prescribing could be the result of the recent medical ...

A new study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors Reports has found that simply believing one’s free will has been compromised – whether it ...

More than half of all Americans who abuse prescription opioids, and nearly 80 percent of heroin users, have high levels of involvement in the criminal ...

44 percent of drivers who died in fatal car crashes in 2016 tested positive for drugs, the first year drug-related driver deaths have exceeded ...

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

Research has established that over-prescribing of prescription opioids has been a major contributor to the out-of-control opioid epidemic in America. ...