Look Out for Nos
Recently empty tanks labeled N2O have begun turning up in the debris left by revelers at some events.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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.
Thinking About Addiction
Latest
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
Supplements for Depression & Anxiety
…so long as no claim is made for the product as a treatment or cure for a specific disease or condition, then “they can say anything they want to” about the supposed benefits of using it.
Read More
The Senate Finally Has A Weed Bill
One reason to attempt to pass the bill now, as opposed to later, is that the GOP is expected to take over the majority at the beginning of next year.
Read More
Their Empire Strikes Back
The Company’s actions relating to the marketing and promotion of these important prescription pain medications were appropriate and responsible. Today the Oklahoma State Supreme Court appropriately and categorically rejected the misguided and unprecedented expansion of the public nuisance law as a means to regulate the manufacture, marketing, and sale of products, including the Company’s prescription opioid medications.”
Read More
A Problem in Prescribing?
…no more than 7.4% of overdose patients had received a prescription for naloxone following an overdose. That covers both the initial visit and any follow-up contacts the hospital required.
Read More
A Consultant’s Story
whatever McKinsey was charging for its services, their clients couldn’t have done what they did without McKinsey’s help. Sure, that led to a drug epidemic such as America has never seen, costing some half a million lives to date.
Read More
A Last Link in the Chain
…there were some real doozies, scripts written for amounts way beyond any conceivable patient need.
Read More
When Doctors Disinform
…what would be a physician’s motive for intentionally spreading bad information? Greed, perhaps. Maybe in hopes of boosting sales from which they ultimately expect to benefit
Read More
New CDC Guidelines, & Thoughts on the Opioid Epidemic
Purdue and the others may have settled their lawsuits, but the victims, and the professionals who treat them, will be paying the price for a long time to come.
Read More
Toke-lahoma & The Wilds of NYC
The Gold Rush atmosphere is because everyone is expecting the arrival of bigger, better-funded, publicly-traded cannabis companies, accompanied by their networks of retail stores.
Read More