Welcome to EVALI
...somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 EVALI cases to date, 50 of which resulted in fatalities.
AA vs Some Online Resources
...the real barrier for many newcomers to AA was the fear that ultimately, they would be required to stop drinking entirely, on a permanent basis.
As a followup to our post of a few weeks back, on the FDA’s ill-advised decision to approve fruit and menthol flavored vaping devices for sale, here’s something of interest on a growing consequence of vaping. The link is to a warning from the American Lung Association:
E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI)
First identified in 2019, EVALI is described as “an acute or subacute respiratory illness” that can be fatal. In fact, “…More than 50% of patients with EVALI require admission to an intensive care unit.” That’s not good.
Underage users are particularly vulnerable. One case describes a 17 year-old boy who developed EVALI after inhaling vapors from his own mix of THC liquid and vitamin E acetate. Oddly enough, vitamin E acetate, safe when taken orally, is a serious irritant to the lungs when inhaled.
So the risk is not only from vaping itself, but often, from ingredients in the vaping liquid.
The figures I found suggested somewhere...
E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury (EVALI)
First identified in 2019, EVALI is described as “an acute or subacute respiratory illness” that can be fatal. In fact, “…More than 50% of patients with EVALI require admission to an intensive care unit.” That’s not good.
Underage users are particularly vulnerable. One case describes a 17 year-old boy who developed EVALI after inhaling vapors from his own mix of THC liquid and vitamin E acetate. Oddly enough, vitamin E acetate, safe when taken orally, is a serious irritant to the lungs when inhaled.
So the risk is not only from vaping itself, but often, from ingredients in the vaping liquid.
The figures I found suggested somewhere...
- Thinking About Addiction
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Fool Me, Please
...a chatbot doesn’t actually feel anything for the user. It’s simply doing what it was programmed to do. Principally, that’s serving as a perfect mirror.
Welcome to EVALI
...somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 EVALI cases to date, 50 of which resulted in fatalities.
A New Czar at ONDCP
...newly appointed Drug Czar is Sara Carter, a 45 year-old investigative journalist best known for her reporting on the US-Mexico border, and her appearances as a contributor on the Fox News Network
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Bad Call on Vaping
Where did all this “pressure” come from? You guessed it: The White House, in response, it appears, to the desperate appeals from industry lobbyists
Addicted to Exercise?
Like addicts deprived of their drug of choice, the compulsive exerciser may report a deep sense of loss, accompanied by symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, depression, anxiety.
Bad Call on Vaping
Where did all this “pressure” come from? You guessed it: The White House, in response, it appears, to the desperate appeals from industry lobbyists
Life in a Hot Spot
Make it a continuing effort, using strategies based in evidence, and harnessing the power of human interaction-- instead of relying on a burst of anti-drug education, however intense.
The Storytellers
One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
PAP or Pill?
Those humble antidepressants have their own advantages, of course. For one thing, they’re likely to be cheaper, more readily available.
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Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
Parenting Under The Influence
Children raised in such families are more likely to be exposed to violence, to initiate their own substance use at an earlier age, and to have mental health problems in childhood.
Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
Officers in the House
...with law enforcement agencies taking on vastly different roles, planning and practicing our response appears more important than in the past.
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A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they've always created problems for a percentage of users.
