Tapering off sleeping pills
It doesn’t much matter whether the primary addiction was to a depressant or a stimulant or some combination of both – sleep difficulties often persist well into recovery.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
A Disturbing Trend in Prescribing
This in spite of the fact … that these drugs can and often do interact harmfully with one another. And regular users are at elevated risk for misuse, abuse, dependence, and/or addiction.
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Tapering off opioids
There appears to be good evidence for relying on an extended taper off opioids versus a more rapid process. Instead of fast cessation of use, the opioid is deliberately reduced on a preset schedule.
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Jailing the Mentally Ill
Prisons, ironically, are burdened by responsibilities that once belonged to enormous, state-run psychiatric hospitals. Many of those were shut down half a century ago…
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Pot and Pregnancy
From a treatment perspective, our goal has to be to provide patients with accurate information about cannabis use and its associated risks, so that their decisions will be informed ones.
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