Pot and the Pregnant Person
They suggest... physicians and practitioners be trained in ways to address the topic with the patient, person to person, so they can reassure her that it isn’t a plot to penalize the woman, or to take away her baby.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
Keep the program going, find referrals, work with families, maintain certification, get the best staff, report to corporate leadership, oh, yeah… and help people with addictive disease establish recovery. It’s a big menu. Here’s some help.
Thinking About Addiction
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An Uptick in Teen Suicide
…suicide rates in this age cohort have increased by more than 60%, just since 2005.
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Drugged Driving: an update
One thing is completely clear: Cannabis use does contribute to driver impairment, and increases risk for accidents and fatalities.
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The Scottish Problem
As for treatment, the best estimate I could find was that 40% of Scotland’s chronic drug users were enrolled in programs, as opposed to 60% in England.
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OMG- A Conspiracy?
I won’t attempt to translate that into dollars of lost revenue, but I imagine it’s a considerable sum.
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That Myth About Wine
Basically, it’s not the people who drink zero alcohol who get sick; it’s that people who are sick tend to give up alcohol.
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Will It Ever End?
…he had become a prime target for exploitation by some truly awful people.
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A Bad Cut, at a Bad Time
Lives are at stake. We can’t rely on hunches. We need facts.
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Not Necessarily Good News
…Trump’s order also calls on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to defund addiction programs that include “harm reduction.”
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A Complicated Question
…would prospective parents be dissuaded from giving birth in the hospital, fearing their newborn would be taken from them, and instead choose to have the birth in a less medically safe setting?
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A Bad Day For Baltimore
Harm reduction advocates argue that this means the city needs to open Supervised Injection Centers, or SIC’s, as a harm reduction measure.
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A bright idea?
The big players merge with or acquire local brands, then aggressively lobby politicians to restrict (or even prohibit) competition from independent businesses.
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A drug test hits the headlines…
…simply holding up a sheet of paper with numbers purporting to be the results of a drug test, may possibly be the least reliable way to demonstrate continuing abstinence from drug use.
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