Gambling — A Public Health Issue?
...because gambling is now an industry with vast resources and a huge political presence, we can expect... significant resistance from those quarters.
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The Meth Mess – P2P
P2P meth seemed to accelerate the curve of meth addiction, so that the user deteriorated far more quickly than in the past. And suffered worse consequences – in particular, a kind of extreme mental toxicity
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Public vs Personal
Some will represent the very best medicine has to offer, and others will be, well, not so great.
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Fatal OD, Unintended OD
To the casual observer, drinking or drug use is a form of slow suicide.
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Overdose Madness
By the way, if you were wondering whether the issue will be co-opted into the ongoing partisan political debate, the answer is: oh, hell yes.
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The Drug Epidemic to Come
On a recent show, comedian John Oliver addressed the prospect of a future virus pandemic that...
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Really Hardcore
Anyway, it’s clear from this and a host of other examples that for some offenders at least, simple incarceration is never enough.
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Medicaid Expands – Finally
If you work in public health, you can breathe a sigh of relief. Now when people in need show up, whether it’s at the clinic, in the ER, or in the hospital, there are funds to help defray the cost.
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Another “Resurgence”
…the preoccupation with overdose death rates inadvertently distracted the public from a much larger and more enduring medical and social problem: an expanding population of persons with chronic Substance Use Disorders (SUDs).
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Russian Revival
But Russians (again like Americans) tend to view the liquor store as an essential business.
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Lessons Not Learned
Treatment staff know from their long experience that someone with a severe substance problem who insists on relying solely on willpower is very likely to fail.
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Opioids in the Era of Covid-19
I don’t think anybody, including me, realized 7 or 8 years ago just how intimately involved Big Pharma and its offshoots were in the phenomenal escalation of drug abuse in West Virginia.
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