What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
Category: Addiction
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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Collegiate “Drunking”
In that environment, alcohol abuse, no matter how excessive, was somehow acceptable. Normalized is the word for it.
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A Congressman’s Crusade
You’d have to be blind not to see the potential for serious problems, especially when you’re talking about high school and college-age students.
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A Pro Goes Public
His motivation was the adverse effect it was having on his relationships, especially with his family.
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Matthew Perry, Large in Life
If we conceive of addiction as a disease, Perry would represent those most vulnerable to it. Very little actual exposure to substances would be enough to trigger that pathology.
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Are Internet disorders really addictions?
From a counseling perspective, it was clear to our clinical team that his habitual Internet use had reached a point where it was inseparable from his drug use.
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About That Fourth Wave…
Extra naloxone doses were required to lift the victim out of a coma and lower the risk of respiratory arrest and death. Translation: New barriers to saving lives in the street. And more fatalities.
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CUD — How Severe is Severe?
Of course, even when someone else sees CUD is advanced, it can take quite a while for the user to realize how bad things are.
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A Parable of Addiction from Deep Space
What interested me was that this episode was first broadcast in 1988 – around the beginning of the prescription opioid epidemic.
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A New Drug to Treat CUD?
An estimate of today’s CUD population in the US: 14.2 million persons.
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Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden!
Yes, it’s horrifying to read about the exploits of addicts in the grip of addiction — it’s horrifying for many of them, too — but is it something we should use against them, for purely political advantage?
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Accidents Happen
His death was an accident in the sense that nothing was found to suggest he intended to die.
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Nurses Stealing Drugs
NCSBN estimates that 10 to 20% of the profession will suffer from some type of substance use problem.
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