No More Drink Limits
It’s ironic these revised recommendations were issued in 2026, since the last few years have seen an abundance of findings as to the serious health consequences of drinking-- including various cancers
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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AI for Mental Health? Not So Fast
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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Bupe or Bust
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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In Luxury’s Lap, with lorazepam
I doubt the Pharma firm that makes and markets lorazepam could’ve hoped for a better ad for its product.
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A near-catastrophe, featuring psilocybin
…it’s a fairly typical example of delusional thinking. Incredibly dangerous when the person was psychosis is flying an airplane.
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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.
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The Skaggs Case – an update
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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More Dangerous Than We Knew
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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A Closer Look at Overdose
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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Out of Focus
…plenty of Americans are involved as well, and presumably would continue their involvement in future, if they think they can get away with it.
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Those Pesky Narcosubs
…surviving an ocean voyage in these vehicles is far from guaranteed. And if the sub sinks, the cargo sinks with it.
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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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