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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by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 11, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
An increasing number of people rely on AI as their *primary resource for mental health concerns. That includes truly vulnerable populations, such as adolescents.
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 20, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
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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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I couldn’t help noticing: The lack of references to the effectiveness of interdiction and law-enforcement.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 31, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
Seems to me this is just another weakness in the plan to rely on border control and enforcement to stem the rise of synthetic drugs in the US.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 30, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
(per the Surgeon General), “…alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year…”
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…because gambling is now an industry with vast resources and a huge political presence, we can expect… significant resistance from those quarters.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 29, 2024 | Public Health | 0 |
Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 2, 2023 | Public Health | 0 |
CDC claims that 1 in 5 drug overdoses in 2020 – or 20% — involved people in those two sectors alone. Something to think about.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 2, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |
…much of the fentanyl in circulation is in the form of an additive to some other drug– cocaine, for instance, or methamphetamine, or one of the many sedatives.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 14, 2022 | Public Health | 0 |
…what would be a physician’s motive for intentionally spreading bad information? Greed, perhaps. Maybe in hopes of boosting sales from which they ultimately expect to benefit
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 23, 2022 | Public Health | 0 |
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
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 18, 2021 | Public Health | 0 |
Some will represent the very best medicine has to offer, and others will be, well, not so great.
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