Monthly Archive for November, 2018
Setting the standard for opioid-based medical treatment
It’s a universal truth: nobody likes pain. Yet how we each deal with pain varies greatly. For years, the methodology didn’t vary that much – the accepted prescribing practice was painkillers in the form of opioids, especially after surgery. We now know that these prescribing practices led to a significant number of people becoming …
Quebec’s Eastern Townships: The Quaintest Towns on Earth
Sure, there’s great skiing in Quebec’s quaint Eastern Townships…If you can stop eating long enough to click in. Considering it’s the region that gave us both the Ski-Doo and North America’s earliest grooming machines, American skiers ought to be more familiar with the Eastern Townships—that disconcerting part of Québec where all the place names are …
An addiction treatment center in New England is helping change the approach to recovery
As the US faces a growing opioid and heroin epidemic, and the rate of overdoses reaches historic levels, a beacon of hope sits on a 25-acre, picturesque estate in Westborough, Massachusetts. The New England Recovery Center (NERC), a subsidiary of New England’s leading addiction treatment provider, Spectrum Health Systems, provides a unique continuum of care …