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...the fastest growing drug of abuse in many areas is methamphetamine, a stimulant. Incentive programs for drug abuse patients first appeared in the treatment of stimulant disorders, and much of the evidence in support of the practice is based there.
It’s easy to understand how primates and other animals discovered fermentation — it happens naturally when fruit is left to lay around.
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What is the psilocybin content of any particular dried mushroom? Does anybody know?
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Incarceration alone is almost never very effective— in fact, drinking may well resume the day the offender is released.
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…real progress has been made — especially with the most challenging population, the very chronic, relapsing, “street” drug user.
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That sounds expensive and time-consuming, which would make it less attractive to third-party payers such as insurance companies.
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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.
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A user could count on a better exchange rate for the Safer Supply medication, whether in cash or illicit heroin, fentanyl, whatever.
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…new data suggest that even those who think they are using their stimulant medications as directed may be at risk of substance use disorder
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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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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.
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“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.
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VIP gambling programs designed to provide an extra special experience for a certain type of gambler, identified as a prime candidate for further exploitation.
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