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She wasn't being entirely altruistic-- she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece-- but it's reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
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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.
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 3, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
She wasn't being entirely altruistic-- she did charge participants a cool five hundred dollars apiece-- but it's reasonable to assume that she meant well, with no intent to cause harm.
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 27, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 20, 2025 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 17, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 13, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 10, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
The real aim was always making recreational use fully legal.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 27, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 1 |
A whole range of psychedelic substances can apparently trigger HPPD
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 13, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
It appears to attract younger CEO’s from industries such as technology, entertainment, and high finance. It’s here that we encounter language such as ‘visioning’, ‘aspirationalizing’, and ‘future-proofing’, whatever that may be.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 23, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…we made a popular drug of abuse legal, widely available in shops and online, and proceed to market the heck out of it– did we really think that the number of users would go down?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 5, 2024 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
“We build a 10 foot wall, they bring an 11 foot ladder.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 21, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Of course, if he’s buying drugs off the Internet, they could contain just about any level of THC. How do we know the maker even checked the THC level? Or cared, for that matter?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 14, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
As of 2023, some 14.2% of Americans over the age of 12 acknowledge having tried cocaine at least once. Among illegal drugs, that still ranks second only to marijuana
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 11, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…pink cocaine could be classified as a stimulant (MDMA), a psychedelic (the aforementioned 2-CB), and a dissociative anesthetic (ketamine). Along with whatever else the outlaw chemist may have had lying around the lab at the time.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…teens are ‘the ultimate herd animals’ when it came to experimentation with drugs. “They’ll try something they know to be risky, simply because they’ve heard others have tried it. It’s as if they’re convinced they’ll fall behind if they don’t.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 10, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Of course, we should expect significant opposition from the alcohol industry.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 7, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
In some instances involving the elderly, the practitioner thinks treatment isn’t worth the effort. “I don’t see the point, especially when she may not have that much time left anyway,”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 3, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…if a patient simply follows the prescribed directions, they can’t possibly get in trouble with a medication like Xanax? I find that remarkably naive.
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