Meds for Drinking Problems?
...the main challenge for all these meds is "medication adherence." Translation: patients stop taking them.
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What works? For who? What doesn’t? Why? A complicated disease makes for complexities in treatment.
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Pot & Potency (again)
Of course, if he’s buying drugs off the Internet, they could contain just about any level of THC. How do we know the maker even checked the THC level? Or cared, for that matter?
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Limits of Harm Reduction
We either do what works, as challenging as that may be, or we accept the consequences of failure.
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Cocaine’s Comeback?
As of 2023, some 14.2% of Americans over the age of 12 acknowledge having tried cocaine at least once. Among illegal drugs, that still ranks second only to marijuana
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More about “The Pink Stuff”
…pink cocaine could be classified as a stimulant (MDMA), a psychedelic (the aforementioned 2-CB), and a dissociative anesthetic (ketamine). Along with whatever else the outlaw chemist may have had lying around the lab at the time.
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A Prime Time Role for N2O
…teens are ‘the ultimate herd animals’ when it came to experimentation with drugs. “They’ll try something they know to be risky, simply because they’ve heard others have tried it. It’s as if they’re convinced they’ll fall behind if they don’t.”
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When Addiction Is The Norm
Genetics appear to play a role, of course; so do environmental factors, including trauma — something that often haunts such families.
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Drug ODs in decline at last?
A logical starting place for a community concerned about drug use would be with data collected by their own health departments and criminal justice agencies, with the aim of funding and implementing a continuum of services that reflects the actual (and likely future) needs of their own citizens.
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Seven Trips to Rehab pt 2
I remember the late James Milam PhD suggesting that the ability to vividly recall one’s first use of a substance might actually be an indicator of future problems.
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7 Trips to Rehab, Part One
These are issues that users seldom take into consideration, in the rush to get the drug. But healthcare professionals, and their attorneys, have to consider them.
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Warning Labels on Liquor — Worth the Effort?
Of course, we should expect significant opposition from the alcohol industry.
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