Odds & Ends from Research
And according to the researchers, (SGB) seems to have a positive impact on other problems that co-occur with PTSD-- anxiety, depression, alcohol consumption.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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Legal Cannabis: Success or Not?
…it’s an omen of bad times to come. Why? Because people in New Mexico’s cities are not buying enough pot.
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The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
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The Power of Drug Company Marketing
…a number of years ago, the Institute of Medicine set forth guidelines intended to reduce the influence of advertising on how physicians prescribed medications… to date, relatively few physicians have actually adopted those guidelines.
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Bongs for Sale, Cheap
…the goal, as one official described it, is to “discourage unlicensed cannabis activities and to help level the playing field for legitimate businesses paying their taxes.”
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The Oregon Trials
Measure 110 was a classic example of a syndrome that’s plagued innovative social programs since the 1960’s and 70’s.
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Presidential Pill Mill?
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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Fatal for These Fans
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
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Another Try at a Cannabis Test
If the current versions of the saliva test hold up to regular use throughout the year long trial, it’s likely state government will make their use permanent.
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Trouble, Spanish-style
There has been speculation that something about people from the UK makes them especially vulnerable to agranulocytosis.
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Predicting CUD’s Impact on Treatment
…it’s more likely to be those with five or six or more symptoms — the “high-moderate” to severe cases, in DSM parlance – who eventually seek treatment.
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