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To date, we continue to lack a widely- used, effective roadside method for detecting cannabis impaired driving.
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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 | Jul 10, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
To date, we continue to lack a widely- used, effective roadside method for detecting cannabis impaired driving.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 3, 2025 | Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 23, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 29, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 26, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 15, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 12, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
What is the psilocybin content of any particular dried mushroom? Does anybody know?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 8, 2025 | Addiction | 0 |
Incarceration alone is almost never very effective— in fact, drinking may well resume the day the offender is released.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 5, 2025 | Treatment | 0 |
…real progress has been made — especially with the most challenging population, the very chronic, relapsing, “street” drug user.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 1, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
That sounds expensive and time-consuming, which would make it less attractive to third-party payers such as insurance companies.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 24, 2025 | Treatment | 0 |
Target client for these operations is the chronic daily user, mostly but not exclusively of opioids, and that’s a difficult population for such programs to work with.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 21, 2025 | Treatment | 0 |
A user could count on a better exchange rate for the Safer Supply medication, whether in cash or illicit heroin, fentanyl, whatever.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 10, 2025 | Addiction | 0 |
…new data suggest that even those who think they are using their stimulant medications as directed may be at risk of substance use disorder
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 27, 2025 | Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
That’s important in a treatment context, because a history of multiple drug use means they will be tempted to focus on one substance — their “drug of choice”, whatever they may feel that is — while minimizing the importance of the others.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“Overdose deaths from carfentanil…[increased] from 29 between January and June 2023 to 238 in that same period in 2024.” That’s a heck of a year-over-year increase, although it still represents only a small percentage of total fatalities.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 6, 2025 | Addiction | 0 |
VIP gambling programs designed to provide an extra special experience for a certain type of gambler, identified as a prime candidate for further exploitation.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 3, 2025 | Treatment | 0 |
“Kennedy has long expressed skepticism about antidepressants, especially (SSRIs), questioning their safety and suggesting they are as addictive as heroin.”
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