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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He’d Rather Die?
Someone as enmeshed in the disease as this drinker may have lost, at least temporarily, the ability to make the right decision.
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What We Can Learn from Estonia
…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.
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Split Over Kratom
…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.”
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Doubts about Diagnosis
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
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Microdosing hallucinogens
They must be getting some kind of reward, or they wouldn’t keep coming back. Perhaps it’s the placebo effect?
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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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