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How to understand the Drug Overdose epidemic through Twitter

How to understand the Drug Overdose epidemic through Twitter

by Patrick Doyle | Jan 6, 2019 | 2 comments

Don’t you hate it when politicians and drug/health policy decision makers declare that an Opioid crisis is a national pubic health emergency that requires our full resources; yet the overdose death toll and damage continues with little if any change?  70,000 or so...
3 Ways To Improve Your Relationship With Your Drug Using Children

3 Ways To Improve Your Relationship With Your Drug Using Children

by Patrick Doyle | Sep 17, 2018 | 2 comments

We at Family Opioid Coaching have gotten hundreds of calls from frustrated, scared parents asking what they can do when their adult children refuse to consider the idea of NOT using drugs.  Sometimes they live with a person who uses drugs (PWUD); too fearful to ask...
Drug addiction affects the user’s entire family — but where are the support groups for that?

Drug addiction affects the user’s entire family — but where are the support groups for that?

by Patrick Doyle | Apr 18, 2018 | 2 comments

Important event in Cincinatti Ohio to support families who have lost a loved one through addiction.  I’m hearing that such families often feel uncomfortable attending traditional bereavement support programs, from the reactions received from others upon...

Meet 91-Year-Old Dr. Melissa Freeman; first MD to treat women with opioid addiction

by Patrick Doyle | Mar 21, 2018 | 2 comments

She’s a 91-year-old practicing physician, granddaughter of a slave, and one of the first doctors to treat women with opioid addiction. #InternationalWomensDay How amazing and inspirational; for women, for all of us. Meet 91-Year-Old Dr. Melissa Freeman...
WNYC News: This Professor Teaches About Drug Use, Including His Own

WNYC News: This Professor Teaches About Drug Use, Including His Own

by Patrick Doyle | Mar 9, 2018 | 12 comments

I have a lot of admiration for the intellect, passion, and compassion of Columbia University Professor Carl Hart, who is very open about his own use of drugs (including heroin).  Until now, my understanding was that Dr. Hart had developed addiction early in life which...
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