The Return of Methamphetamine
"Heroin withdrawal is like a really awful bout of the flu," one former patient, a screenwriter, told me. "Getting off methadone, that feels like dying."
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Legalization’s Impact on Cannabis Use Disorders (CUD)
Occasional use is not the problem. Trouble increases dramatically, however, with heavier use.
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Walls and Fences
What we really need most are substantive changes on the demand side.
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Cannabis and Mental Health
Even if it turns out to be ineffective for patients, buying cannabis products certainly gives a boost to the sales figures.
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Running, But Not on Empty
I might have attributed it to the fabled ‘runner’s high’ had I not met so many dedicated runners who denied experiencing one–
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Drugstore Cowboy
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
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Groups That Work: Values
Effective working groups can continue their traditions through surprising changes in location, membership, etc.
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Breaking Up With Vaping
Sure, the tar was gone, but as one of the other counselors put it, “that thing ain’t nothin’ but a crack pipe for nicotine.”
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“Addicted”? Or “dependent”?
But it’s still confusing for many people outside the field, since unlike psychiatry, they don’t revise their thinking every couple decades.
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Fentanyl Goes West
It’s Business 101, for illegal as well as legal enterprises.
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Back to Biases
“He’s a drug addict,” we’ll hear someone say. “You know what those people are like.”
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Control- And the Loss of It
In addictions, a compulsion is usually expressed as a powerful, perhaps even overwhelming urge to continue gambling, drinking, whatever.
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