Why It’s Hard to Quit Smoking
Understandably, there’s a real incentive for science or business to come up with an easier, softer alternative to actually giving up smoking, as opposed to the universally accepted method of well, simply stopping.
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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:
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 29, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
Understandably, there’s a real incentive for science or business to come up with an easier, softer alternative to actually giving up smoking, as opposed to the universally accepted method of well, simply stopping.
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 22, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 15, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 4, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 1, 2024 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 20, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 6, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
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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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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 16, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 25, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
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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What interested me was that this episode was first broadcast in 1988 – around the beginning of the prescription opioid epidemic.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 17, 2023 | Addiction | 1 |
An estimate of today’s CUD population in the US: 14.2 million persons.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 6, 2023 | Addiction, In the News | 0 |
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?
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 | Nov 7, 2022 | Addiction, In the News | 0 |
NCSBN estimates that 10 to 20% of the profession will suffer from some type of substance use problem.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
I imagine it takes a special kind of practitioner to push aside the barriers in the system to get to the SUD that lies underneath, even when he or she knows it’s there.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 13, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
Hint: Just insisting that you’re not bluffing this time won’t convince that young man, or many others of his kind. He’ll need to be shown.
In an atmosphere such as this – already ‘spoiled’, we might say – any response must be carefully thought through and planned.
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 6, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
…the real barrier for many newcomers to AA was the fear that ultimately, they would be required to stop drinking entirely, on a permanent basis.
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