An ADHD-maxxer
Those signs and symptoms happen to be shared by most people who arrive in treatment for opioid or alcohol or stimulant disorders. They're behaviors that clinicians use to help them identify addictive disorders in their patients.
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What works? For who? What doesn’t? Why? A complicated disease makes for complexities in treatment.
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The Daily Pot Diet
…daily cannabis use may help with pain in the short term but make it worse in the long term by reducing tolerance to pain.
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Bad Call on Vaping
Where did all this “pressure” come from? You guessed it: The White House, in response, it appears, to the desperate appeals from industry lobbyists
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Addicted to Exercise?
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.
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The Storytellers
One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
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Medical MJ for MH
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.
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PAP or Pill?
Those humble antidepressants have their own advantages, of course. For one thing, they’re likely to be cheaper, more readily available.
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We Don’t Want A New Drug
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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Gambling, Teen Style
I suspect many parents would be surprised to learn that ”The students in the audience…are all too familiar with the explosion of apps that make it easy to bet on individual plays, international politics and awards show flubs.”
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Withdrawal Management, in Practice
Now detox has become withdrawal management, and the cookie-cutter approach is no more.
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Detox versus Withdrawal Management
…since addiction has been and probably will continue to be heavily stigmatized in some parts of society, most users will go it alone at least once.
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Update on Pot-related DWI…
Apparently, cannabis testing yields an unacceptable number of false positive results.
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Undercounted?
Seriously, where’s the incentive to put out a product that could potentially kill your best customers? How in the world could that be considered a smart business move?
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