Mushrooming Athletes
Because studies also suggest some real risks. Dangers, in fact. It's possible that the current wave of fawning reports of miraculous cures could be replaced by stories of horrific incidents.
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Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 1, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Because studies also suggest some real risks. Dangers, in fact. It's possible that the current wave of fawning reports of miraculous cures could be replaced by stories of horrific incidents.
by C. Scott McMillin | May 22, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 11, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 8, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 4, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 27, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 24, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
When the trip ends, the writer acknowledges, the user may be “…throwing up or having trouble at the other end.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 20, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
Also, one of the local rags had a few Shroom House products tested and discovered, to no one’s surprise, that some had been made from synthetics. Not the ‘real thing’, after all.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 17, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
His death was an accident in the sense that nothing was found to suggest he intended to die.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
The President went on to insist that Mexican-made fentanyl pills only came in blue–
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 10, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…since xylazine isn’t itself an opioid, the antagonist naloxone won’t reverse its effects. Even with prompt treatment, the user can still experience respiratory arrest.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 3, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Anybody concerned that some GHB-based prescribed meds will be diverted for illicit use?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 30, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Colleges, in my experience, have a weirdly ambivalent attitude towards this kind of behavior from their students.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 16, 2023 | Recovery | 0 |
…nowadays Flavor Flav is repping the sober life. Calling on today’s rap artists to “do better when it comes to depicting drug use in their lyrics.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 9, 2023 | Treatment | 0 |
I doubt ‘tough love’ was ever meant to be that tough. It’s all in how the programs interpret it.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 6, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
If 25% of patients in studies either 1) didn’t benefit or 2) had a negative experience, perhaps even a terrifying one– that’s a lot.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 27, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
The researchers were interested in whether receipt of such a letter would cause the physician to be more cautious in prescribing in future. The answer: It did.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 23, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
They seem proud of that, as if it were evidence of strength of character, rather than a sign of deep dependence on the drug.
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