More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
Flooded with Fakes
The DEA has committed to a public information campaign around the theme of “one pill can kill”. Although that’s technically true, I don’t know how much impact it will have on the target audience.
Someone on the Internet is promising that recovery from addictions will be easy?
Naturally, it's on TikTok.
Here’s the first-person account, from a newcomer struggling with sobriety.
I stopped drinking three months ago – it’s not as simple as the internet makes it look
Who knew? Actually, a vast number of people who’ve been through it themselves, or alongside a loved one.
Besides, when is anything you see online ever as easy as they make it look?
The writer’s complaint is common among those who attempt recovery on their own, rather than through treatment or involvement with a support group. They’re information-poor. Lacking in essential basic knowledge of what’s about to happen.
The education one receives in treatment is intended not just to supply better quality knowledge, but to identify and hopefully replace all that bad information that has accumulated over decades of living in a society that doesn’t understand how addiction works, or why...
Naturally, it's on TikTok.
Here’s the first-person account, from a newcomer struggling with sobriety.
I stopped drinking three months ago – it’s not as simple as the internet makes it look
Who knew? Actually, a vast number of people who’ve been through it themselves, or alongside a loved one.
Besides, when is anything you see online ever as easy as they make it look?
The writer’s complaint is common among those who attempt recovery on their own, rather than through treatment or involvement with a support group. They’re information-poor. Lacking in essential basic knowledge of what’s about to happen.
The education one receives in treatment is intended not just to supply better quality knowledge, but to identify and hopefully replace all that bad information that has accumulated over decades of living in a society that doesn’t understand how addiction works, or why...
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- Public Health
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More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
The Power of Drug Company Marketing
...a number of years ago, the Institute of Medicine set forth guidelines intended to reduce the influence of advertising on how physicians prescribed medications... to date, relatively few physicians have actually adopted those guidelines.
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- Addiction
- Addictive Substances
- Prevention
- Recovery
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No, Recovery Isn’t Easy
The reality is, there are significant barriers to overcome. One of the more common ones is that pesky internal debate over whether or not one is really, truly, addicted.
What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
Pink Cocaine, it isn’t
When I've seen people attempt to explain their motives, they usually blame it on the trust they had in their source -- whoever gave or sold it to them at the time. That trust was misplaced, they complain.
An Interesting Case From Virginia
If I had to recommend something, it would be for schools and parents to grab onto those evidence-based approaches and make them integral to your school culture.
No, Recovery Isn’t Easy
The reality is, there are significant barriers to overcome. One of the more common ones is that pesky internal debate over whether or not one is really, truly, addicted.
Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
- Resources For
- Addiction Clinicians
- Families
- People in Recovery
- Programs
Exercising for Chronic Pain Relief
We've known for several decades that regular exercise, even the mild sort, helps lessen symptoms of depression. It comes as no surprise that it may also help with CPS and the mood problems that accompany it.
Borderline, Revisited
The term was invented in the 1930’s to describe someone prone to becoming psychotic or severely disturbed under stress, but who otherwise was capable of functioning normally.
Self-Diagnosis
Most of the time, there’s an extended period in which the drinker is engaged in something called ‘comparing out’. That's when they're focused on what isn't wrong with their drinking, and ignoring or minimizing what is.
Exercising for Chronic Pain Relief
We've known for several decades that regular exercise, even the mild sort, helps lessen symptoms of depression. It comes as no surprise that it may also help with CPS and the mood problems that accompany it.
Drugs in Jail
If 70% or more of a jail population has been identified as having a drug or alcohol problem – that does happen – then what you’re really operating is a treatment center that happens to have bars on the windows and guards at the entrance.
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First Person Hard Charger
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
First Person Hard Charger
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
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.
