Category: Addictive Substances

Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.

Addictive Substances

Labeling Benzos

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 15, 2020 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |

For a long time, many medical professionals were resistant to the idea that benzos could be hazardous unless the patient took too many at once, or mixed them with alcohol.

Vaping Reaches the Big Time

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 24, 2020 | Addictive Substances, Resources | 0 |
Psychedelics in Psychotherapy

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 17, 2020 | Addiction Clinicians, Addictive Substances | 0 |
Excited Delirium? Ketamine on the Street

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 14, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Pot is Hot

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 20, 2020 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
Who’s Dropping Acid

by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 16, 2020 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |

Higher and Higher

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 4, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

Not completely unexpectedly, the research team found that using the more potent forms substantially increased the risk for cannabis use disorders (CUDs in the US), as well as anxiety disorders.

Cannabis News: Good, and Not-So-Good

by C. Scott McMillin | May 7, 2020 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |

By the standards of today’s marijuana user, that ain’t very high. Lots of folks out there who I imagine routinely exceed that.

Crack Mad

by C. Scott McMillin | May 4, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

It’s crime of the sort you expect to find in a Quentin Tarantino movie but I’ve come to associate over the years with cocaine, crack, meth, and other stimulants.

Opioids in the Era of Covid-19

by Cecile | Apr 27, 2020 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |

I don’t think anybody, including me, realized 7 or 8 years ago just how intimately involved Big Pharma and its offshoots were in the phenomenal escalation of drug abuse in West Virginia.

Have a Safe Trip…

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 20, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

One expert observed that “the current trend towards ‘micro-dosing’ (consuming tiny amounts of psychedelic drugs to improve creativity)… may have a strong placebo component due to widespread cultural expectations that frame the response.”

Cannabi-News

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 13, 2020 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |

People get very dependent on cannabis. The way they do with certain other drugs.

Is Cannabis Essential, Like Milk and Eggs?

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 6, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

Makes me wonder about the widespread practice of prescribing medical marijuana for mental health conditions such as PTSD.

The Return of Methamphetamine

by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 6, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |

“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.”