The Brad Pitt Experience
It’s a familiar path that countless others have trod before him. For most of them, things didn’t turn out too well. I’m sure he knows that. We all know that, don’t we?
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What works? For who? What doesn’t? Why? A complicated disease makes for complexities in treatment.

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 27, 2026 | Addiction | 0 |
It’s a familiar path that countless others have trod before him. For most of them, things didn’t turn out too well. I’m sure he knows that. We all know that, don’t we?
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 24, 2026 | Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 20, 2026 | Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 17, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 13, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 6, 2026 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 3, 2026 | Addiction | 0 |
Someone as enmeshed in the disease as this drinker may have lost, at least temporarily, the ability to make the right decision.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 30, 2026 | Prevention | 0 |
…the situation has improved, mostly because of renewed efforts on the demand side. Estonia adopted harm reduction strategies used effectively in other countries, such as take-home naloxone; ready access to MAT; and efforts to destigmatize drug use and drug users.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 6, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 15, 2026 | Treatment | 0 |
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 11, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
They must be getting some kind of reward, or they wouldn’t keep coming back. Perhaps it’s the placebo effect?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 8, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…daily cannabis use may help with pain in the short term but make it worse in the long term by reducing tolerance to pain.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 18, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Where did all this “pressure” come from? You guessed it: The White House, in response, it appears, to the desperate appeals from industry lobbyists
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 4, 2026 | Addiction | 0 |
Like addicts deprived of their drug of choice, the compulsive exerciser may report a deep sense of loss, accompanied by symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, depression, anxiety.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 30, 2026 | Recovery | 0 |
One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 16, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
I know what the science says, and if asked, I can share that. But I don’t expect anyone to say, “whoa, I never knew! thank God you told me!”, and then immediately quit smoking pot.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 12, 2026 | Treatment | 0 |
Those humble antidepressants have their own advantages, of course. For one thing, they’re likely to be cheaper, more readily available.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 9, 2026 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Cychlorphine has failed to show up on the usual drug screens. That just means it’s more likely to be missed, including on autopsy.
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