A Spike in Drinking
Those restrictions existed to inhibit people’s tendencies to abuse alcohol. In their absence, problems related to excessive drinking increased, substantially.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
Investments, costs, regulations, laws, courts and prisons– what helps? What’s useless or worse- harmful? What’s the cost to the taxpayer? And the economy? And the families? And, oh, yes… the people suffering from addictive disease?
Thinking About Addiction
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Psychedelica Update: Who Invests?
The idea is to get into the market early, grab as much share as you can, so that when the inevitable shakeout occurs, and smaller vendors drop out, you’re left in the catbird seat.
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Chasing the Rainbow (Fentanyl)
I think poisoned Halloween candy would be extremely unlikely but potentially devastating to whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end.
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Nurses Stealing Drugs
NCSBN estimates that 10 to 20% of the profession will suffer from some type of substance use problem.
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In The News: Apathy and Pot
I’m sure this is helpful information but I’d be more interested in something new on CUD patients with more severe DSM5 profiles.
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Look Out for Nos
Recently empty tanks labeled N2O have begun turning up in the debris left by revelers at some events.
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What About Safe Injection Sites?
They’ve been shown to reduce the likelihood of an overdose fatality, but also to reduce the risk of disease and disease transmission; increase access to needed services…and to some extent, reduce criminal conduct.
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Vaping for Good Health?
Marketed as supplements, they’re excused from having to inform us. And they don’t.
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A Weird Tale of Politics & Pot
A DC lobbyist…filed a suit claiming that John Boehner and an associated law firm had stolen his idea, and the plans for implementing it, without giving him credit (or paying him)
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Walgreens Rides Alone
One thing that emerged is that Walgreen’s own pharmacists had made repeated attempts to convince corporate leadership to establish a central database of suspicious purchases, and the customers who made them.
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Pro Football Hero Goes Psychedelic
…where the NFL and the solons of pro sports may be waiting on the results of the clinical trials and approval from FDA before they proceed, those same young fans are more likely to just go ahead and buy the stuff off the friend of a friend and, you know, take it.
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Legal Drug Blues
More impressive results have come from simply increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages. States that have done so have been rewarded, mostly through reductions in the consequences of excessive drinking.
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A Problem In Prescribing — Part 2
I did ask a veteran ER physician for one suggestion that he felt would actually help both doctor and patient in the ER setting. His answer: Peer Support services.
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