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?
...a former US Senator took the time to explain to me that framing certain problems as a war rather than, say, a public health issue, was because it made it much easier to marshal public support and (hopefully) a lot of funding.
…he did purchase and ingest the illegal opioids. He didn’t realize they contained fentanyl.
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An older person, usually a man, calling people in the middle of the night in order to rant drunkenly about his various complaints and resentments.
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It struck me as a similar sort of small time, low-profile operation that would attract ordinary people hoping for a rare payday.
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At present, the emphasis is on interdiction, the supply side. Meanwhile, we struggle with cuts in resources for treatment and prevention – the demand side.
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An increasing number of people rely on AI as their *primary resource for mental health concerns. That includes truly vulnerable populations, such as adolescents.
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It wasn’t long, however, before we realized that the relapse rates from detoxification using Suboxone were quite high, with drug use often resuming on the day of discharge.
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I doubt the Pharma firm that makes and markets lorazepam could’ve hoped for a better ad for its product.
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…it’s a fairly typical example of delusional thinking. Incredibly dangerous when the person was psychosis is flying an airplane.
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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.
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Would it be reasonable to expect an employer to recognize when their employee was engaged in conduct such as Kay’s? Or was that outside of their role as employer, and their responsibility for his actions?
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Drivers who test positive for THC are fond of arguing that the positive test was based on a joint they’d smoked a while ago – or even better, that somebody else in the car had been smoking.
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All this time and money spent on sophisticated technology and systems to track patterns in use, and scientists are still forced to rely on data that’s six months out of date?
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