Accidents Happen
His death was an accident in the sense that nothing was found to suggest he intended to die.
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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 | Apr 17, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
His death was an accident in the sense that nothing was found to suggest he intended to die.
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 7, 2022 | Addiction, In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 13, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 6, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 22, 2022 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 8, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
I’m not sure the author realizes that almost all the drinkers who wind up in addiction treatment do so after having gone through a period of questioning whether or not they deserve a label such as alcoholic.
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It’s still what we tend to think of as ‘normal’. Held up as what we hope to return to, someday when the pandemic is over and sanity has returned.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 1, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
There’s a long history of people dying from the cocaine-opioid combo, commonly known as a ‘speedball’. The actor John Belushi is one. Philip Seymour Hoffman, River Phoenix are others. We could go on.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 30, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
I’d argue that for many years, we paid too much attention to acute withdrawal and too little to the other aspects of opioid recovery, especially relapse prevention.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 19, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
People with well-established patterns of use (including frequent users) have probably learned to self-medicate the discomfort of withdrawal by using more cannabis.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 18, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
Bettors at the race track report feeling a distinct sense of relief after they place a bet – again, regardless of the outcome. “That’s what I was chasing,” admitted one person now in recovery. “That feeling. Except it doesn’t last. So you keep chasing.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 28, 2022 | Addiction | 1 |
I asked a number of the attending docs if they’d spoken with the patient about the problem, and was startled by how rarely the answer was yes.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 24, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
She was continually being surprised when others reported what she’d said and done during her blackouts. The memories themselves never returned.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 31, 2022 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
I can see how Smartphones could just make a bad situation worse. Legislation, on the other hand, has a long way to go simply to catch up.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 6, 2022 | Addiction, Families, In the News | 0 |
Research into long-term recovery has been prominent in the past — why not revive it?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 8, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
…the JAMA study is a testament to exactly how widespread pot use has been among youth, for a very long time now.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 7, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
“Don’t worry, I’ll stop when I’m ready.” Somehow, that readiness never comes. Or perhaps it simply arrives too late.
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