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.
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Kratom, Once Again
Does this remind anyone of the ‘grass roots’ movement that arose to lobby Congress for reduced restriction on long-term opioid prescribing for chronic pain patients?
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A Success, but with Complications
But if he feels he needs the medication to function normally, I see no reason for the rest of us to object. I mean, we don’t want to disincentivize someone’s recovery, do we?
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Why It’s Hard to Quit Smoking
Understandably, there’s a real incentive for science or business to come up with an easier, softer alternative to actually giving up smoking, as opposed to the universally accepted method of well, simply stopping.
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The Price of Gambling
That’s what I’d be interested in seeing. A rich industry sharing more of its wealth with the people who become its victims.
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Stimulants and success in treatment
“I guess that proves that no meth is still better for you than using less meth.”
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The Pot Paradox
“… Is [cannabis] good for you? It’s hard to find the literature that suggests that. Is it neutral for you? Maybe, for some people. Is it harmful for some people? Absolutely.”
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1st Person — A Greener Day
The fact is, about a third of US adults don’t drink at all, or they drink so occasionally as to qualify as nondrinkers. I’ve noticed how difficult it can be for some patients in addiction treatment to believe that.
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Testing…Testing
California State government has realized that these labs are essentially willing to fudge their results in order to please their customers in the cannabis industry.
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School for Psychedelics
Presumably, a licensed facilitator would be required to sign a code of ethical conduct, and would be subject to suspension or loss of license in the event they were found guilty of misbehavior.
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Gas Station Heroin
Consumers may inadvertently find themselves addicted to tianeptine and should avoid all products containing tianeptine, especially those claiming to treat opioid use disorder.
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Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
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Up Next — Nitazenes
And for nitazenes, ‘ultra potent’ likely translates to ten or more times as powerful as fentanyl. Many hundreds of times beyond morphine.
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