Jeffrey Reynolds
New Research: Alcohol Deaths Have Doubled and Biggest Increases Are Among Women and Older Americans
That point was driven home further in a study published yesterday in the scientific journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental...
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Jeffrey Reynolds
Nov 8, 20191 min read
Feds Re-Launch National Addiction Treatment Locator Website
FindTreatment.gov – a national substance used disorder treatment database. The online treatment locator is boldly marked as “An official...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Dec 7, 20172 min read
“Narcan Parties” Are Fake News
Skittle Parties Were Fake News, Too News outlets nationwide are reporting on “Narcan Parties” and “Lazarus Parties” where drug users...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Sep 12, 20173 min read
NYS Cracks Down on Predatory Addiction Treatment Marketers
The treatment provided is often substandard (most states don’t regulate treatment facilities as rigorously as New York does), not suited...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Jul 29, 20172 min read
Addiction Treatment Marketing Gone Awry
In May 2016, I did some research into TreatmentCalls.com after receiving an unsolicited email. As part of that research, I made a call...
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 19, 20171 min read
What You Need to Know about “Gray Death”
Though ingredients vary, gray death is typically a combination of heroin and synthetic opioids like fentanyl and U-47700, along with...
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 12, 20171 min read
My TEDx Talk at Adelphi on the Heroin Crisis
On March 31, 2017, I was fortunate to be able to deliver a TEDx talk at Adelphi University. Entitled, “Smacked By the Storm: How Long...
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 8, 20172 min read
What’s the Connection Between Drugs and Gangs on Long Island?
Gangs and drugs. With an upswing in gang-related murders, drug overdose deaths and all that comes with unchecked violence and untreated...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Apr 9, 20172 min read
Record Number of Drug Overdoses on Long Island in 2016
Suffolk continued to outpace Nassau as it has since the start of the epidemic, accounting for 303 of opioid fatalities, while Nassau...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Jan 30, 20171 min read
“Bad” Heroin vs. “Good” Heroin
These kinds of alerts are becoming increasingly common and tracking overdoses in order to prevent subsequent fatalities is an important...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Jan 22, 20171 min read
Preventing Overdose Deaths – There may soon be an App for that!
Last year, the federal Food and Drug Administration announced a Naloxone App Competition to spur technology entrepreneurs to come up with...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Dec 30, 20161 min read
It’s Not The Drug, But The Disease
In the last few days, there’s been a ton of press about the big surge in overdose deaths related to Fentanyl – an opioid that’s...
Jeffrey Reynolds
Nov 7, 20161 min read
Carfentanil is Coming to our Communities
After a series of fatal overdoses involving Fentanyl analogs like Carfentanil in Ohio in August, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) issued...
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 31, 20162 min read
Sunny Side Up – Educating Kids About Substance Use Disorders Early On
It’s set during a long hot August in the mid-1970’s, when 10-year-old Sunny Lewin is sent by her parents to spend part of her summer in...
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 22, 20161 min read
NYS Heroin Task Force Coming to Long Island
New York State’s Task Force to Combat Heroin comes to Long Island on Wednesday, May 25th as part of our statewide listening tour. These...
Jeffrey Reynolds
May 19, 20162 min read
TreatmentCalls.com Threatens To Sue Me
In the post, I included text from an unsolicited SPAM email I received the day before from a service called TreatmentCalls.com. Here’s...
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