Some good news on opioid epidemic: Treatment options are expanding
William Greene, University of Florida and Lisa J. Merlo, University of Florida In the past two decades, the devastation associated with opioid addiction has…

Dual disorders have become more common as physicians have successfully evaluated and referred to treatment many patients with alcohol and/or drug abuse and psychiatric disorders. Recent research reports have confirmed what our experts at the Florida Recovery Center have experienced at the center.
Many patients with a psychiatric disease also have a drug or alcohol dependence. Drugs trigger latent psychiatric vulnerabilities, precipitate lifelong psychiatric disease and serve as self-medication for patients with chronic depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and attention deficit disorder.
While the Florida Recovery Center has always had a large and well-known group of addiction medicine physicians, we also have a large group of psychiatrists who are board-certified in addiction. The division of addiction psychiatry at the University of Florida includes inpatient and outpatient specialists who treat patients of all ages from adolescence to geriatrics.
William Greene, University of Florida and Lisa J. Merlo, University of Florida In the past two decades, the devastation associated with opioid addiction has…
Tobacco use remains the single largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 Americans each…