Every single person in meth addiction treatment is going through a rough time. This sort of challenge leads many people to see the effort to treat methamphetamine abuse as more bleak than beneficial. You have intensive therapy to attend, nutrition to learn, routines to establish, isolation to overcome, and attempting to forge ahead can be …
Montana residents who suffer from chronic pain are visiting California to obtain opioid prescriptions since many local pain doctors have closed their practices. Montana doctors are saying the federal crackdown on opioid prescription monitoring is influencing them to take on fewer patients, or close their practices for fear of facing license suspension. At present, preventing …
In an effort to improve the country’s opioid addiction crisis, the CDC released new guidelines for the prescribing of opioid painkillers for chronic pain. Montana recently joined 35 other states to support the implementation of these guidelines, which will help physicians identify when patients are at risk for opioid addiction. The CDC’s guidelines, along with …
Medical marijuana was re-legalized in the state of Montana on Election Day with the passing of Initiative 182, the Montana Medical Marijuana Initiative. Medical marijuana was first legalized in 2004, but became harder to obtain after 2011 when new laws restricted the state’s program and access to supply. Now that medical marijuana is legal once …
Montana is one of three states remaining that lack comprehensive laws allowing residents easy access to naloxone at pharmacies. Naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, is commonly used by first responders and Montana drug rehab centers that offer opioid addiction treatments. In other states, naloxone is widely available for friends and family members of loved …
Works of art created for a contest called “Bitter Pill: Montana Lives Affected by Rx Abuse” are currently making their way across the state in a traveling exhibition. The contest, sponsored in part by the DEA and the District of Montana U.S. Attorney’s Office, was created as an awareness and prevention effort surrounding drug addiction …