Medical Relapse Trap
That is not the doc’s fault, and frankly, it isn't really James’, either. It’s what happens where addiction rules. If not at that moment, then the next.
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One of the oldest diseases in the world, and we still don’t know as much as we should about its causes, effects, and how to treat it- much less cure it. What we do know, and what we’re learning, ends up here:
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Lessons Not Learned
Treatment staff know from their long experience that someone with a severe substance problem who insists on relying solely on willpower is very likely to fail.
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Opioids in the Era of Covid-19
I don’t think anybody, including me, realized 7 or 8 years ago just how intimately involved Big Pharma and its offshoots were in the phenomenal escalation of drug abuse in West Virginia.
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Recovery Quarantine
We just expected people to get well faster, only because they were no longer bombarding their brains with chemicals.
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Have a Safe Trip…
One expert observed that “the current trend towards ‘micro-dosing’ (consuming tiny amounts of psychedelic drugs to improve creativity)… may have a strong placebo component due to widespread cultural expectations that frame the response.”
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First Person: Scared Silly
The question is, when you have all those years of apparently successful recovery, why throw it aside? How could that improve your situation?
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Cannabi-News
People get very dependent on cannabis. The way they do with certain other drugs.
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AA’s Effectiveness
I simply ask them what else they plan to do to stay clean and sober? Turns out that’s a far more difficult question to answer.
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Is Cannabis Essential, Like Milk and Eggs?
Makes me wonder about the widespread practice of prescribing medical marijuana for mental health conditions such as PTSD.
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Well-Defended
It’s just our old friend motivated reasoning at work– our inclination to favor arguments that support what we want to believe over evidence to the contrary.
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The Nausea Solution
Of the patients I met, all decided on aversion therapy for essentially the same reason: they’d tried other things, experienced relapse, and lost patience.
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Is Video Gaming Addiction a Real Addiction?
…the existence of something called “gaming disorder” doesn’t threaten gaming itself, any more than the existence of alcoholism means nobody can drink safely.
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