One for PTSD, One for Pain
Many of the chronic pain patients I’ve run into suffer from both depression and anxiety, much of it related to their experience of pain.
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What works? For who? What doesn’t? Why? A complicated disease makes for complexities in treatment.
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Hardcore, once more
Incarceration alone is almost never very effective— in fact, drinking may well resume the day the offender is released.
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Change, at Ground Level
…real progress has been made — especially with the most challenging population, the very chronic, relapsing, “street” drug user.
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A Student of Psychedelics…
That sounds expensive and time-consuming, which would make it less attractive to third-party payers such as insurance companies.
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A Visit to Injection Central
Target client for these operations is the chronic daily user, mostly but not exclusively of opioids, and that’s a difficult population for such programs to work with.
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The Best Laid Plans…
A user could count on a better exchange rate for the Safer Supply medication, whether in cash or illicit heroin, fentanyl, whatever.
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About those prescribed stimulants…
…new data suggest that even those who think they are using their stimulant medications as directed may be at risk of substance use disorder
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Sad, But Also True
She wasn’t being entirely altruistic– she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece– but it’s reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
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“It was never a problem”
That’s important in a treatment context, because a history of multiple drug use means they will be tempted to focus on one substance — their “drug of choice”, whatever they may feel that is — while minimizing the importance of the others.
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Another wave of OD?
“Overdose deaths from carfentanil…[increased] from 29 between January and June 2023 to 238 in that same period in 2024.” That’s a heck of a year-over-year increase, although it still represents only a small percentage of total fatalities.
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You Too Can Be A VIP
VIP gambling programs designed to provide an extra special experience for a certain type of gambler, identified as a prime candidate for further exploitation.
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Antidepressants under fire?
“Kennedy has long expressed skepticism about antidepressants, especially (SSRIs), questioning their safety and suggesting they are as addictive as heroin.”
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Watch Out for ‘Vitamin K’
Now that more of the widely abused anesthetic is in circulation for so-called ‘recreational’ purposes, new (and strange) consequences have begun to emerge.
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