Safer Supply?
...it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted-- for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
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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Some Downward Progress
Many older folks turn to cannabis to self-medicate the pain and sleep problems that can plague old age. As they become dependent on cannabis, we could see the emergence of more health-related problems there.
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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.
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Mean Green
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
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Good News on the Overdose Front
Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.
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An MD takes on the DEA
Still, “pill mills” do continue to exist, if not in the numbers they once did. I suppose they could stage a comeback — the economics still work.
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Another Country Tries Prohibition
…efforts to provide treatment for the many victims of rampant alcoholism have been relatively rare, largely volunteer efforts funded by donations rather than much in the way of government support.
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More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
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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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