Nico Warriors
…nicotine has definite health consequences of its own. One major problem is that it’s addictive. Nicotine users develop tolerance and dependence, and a pronounced withdrawal syndrome that can be difficult to endure.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Drugs in Rehab: Part 2
I was reminded that patients’ own goals can easily diverge from, or even directly contradict, the presumed goals of the professionals who treat them.
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Drugs in Rehab: Part I
Jails and prisons do body searches, most programs will not. It’s intrusive and a person who wasn’t under sentence of the court ordinarily wouldn’t permit it.
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Fentanyl Walking
I get the impression that the possibility of collateral damage from the practice — I’m talking about a rash of overdose fatalities in our communities–– was not a primary concern for those who planned this operation.
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We Don’t Want A New Drug
It’s an opioid, naturally. Synthetic in origin, probably highly addictive, if it doesn’t kill the user first — which it will probably do.
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