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Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
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Sometimes it’s new information. Sometimes it’s helpful, hopeful news. And sometimes it’s clickbait, bad information or useless.
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 1, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 28, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 11, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 7, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 4, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
…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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 26, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 12, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 5, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
There has been speculation that something about people from the UK makes them especially vulnerable to agranulocytosis.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 22, 2024 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
…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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
“During our training, we were told numerous times that this is a safe, effective drug,” one of the two testified.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 1, 2024 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
You’d have to be blind not to see the potential for serious problems, especially when you’re talking about high school and college-age students.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 28, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
After all, though P-P folded, and billions were lost, in the end the owners managed to get away with the bulk of their fortune, and ultimately to avoid the most serious consequences of their actions.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 25, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
One legislator worried that people who suffered from trauma and various social inequities needed alcohol as a form of self-medication.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 14, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
It’s just good business. The stuff is virtually unregulated, far more affordable to make and distribute, and quite profitable, especially where conservative legislators are unlikely to legalize marijuana anytime soon.
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