Up Next: Ibogaine
Over the years I’ve noticed that almost everything you or I could think of has been credited with helping someone, somewhere, recover from addiction.
Snake Oil
In an effort to make them sexier, research findings may be misstated or misinterpreted.
Today’s topic is a drug some of you may not have heard that much about.
The next ayahuasca? Gabon fights to protect sacred plant from US drug companies
Iboga root, central to several Gabonese ritual traditions, is believed to have huge potential for use in treating addiction and some mental illnesses
I recall first encountering ibogaine in a newspaper article when I was in college, during the late 60s. There the emphasis was on its value to psychonauts of the day in their quest for spiritual enlightenment.
In today’s discussions, however, the drug is being touted for its potential use in the treatment of addictions.
Will it prove truly helpful? Some folks have claimed that it already has. I have no reason to doubt them, but that doesn’t mean others with the same disease can expect the same results.
Over the years I’ve noticed that almost everything you or I could think of has been credited with helping someone, somewhere, recover from addiction.
Sigmund...
The next ayahuasca? Gabon fights to protect sacred plant from US drug companies
Iboga root, central to several Gabonese ritual traditions, is believed to have huge potential for use in treating addiction and some mental illnesses
I recall first encountering ibogaine in a newspaper article when I was in college, during the late 60s. There the emphasis was on its value to psychonauts of the day in their quest for spiritual enlightenment.
In today’s discussions, however, the drug is being touted for its potential use in the treatment of addictions.
Will it prove truly helpful? Some folks have claimed that it already has. I have no reason to doubt them, but that doesn’t mean others with the same disease can expect the same results.
Over the years I’ve noticed that almost everything you or I could think of has been credited with helping someone, somewhere, recover from addiction.
Sigmund...
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Up Next: Ibogaine
Over the years I’ve noticed that almost everything you or I could think of has been credited with helping someone, somewhere, recover from addiction.
Those Troubling OD Statistics
In recent months, samples have been found with as much as 20% fentanyl content. It’s easy to see how this could increase both the total number of overdoses, and the percentage of victims who did not survive.
The Voters, Voting
Turns out that cannabis is not really just the harmless fun toy that people assumed. Not now that products are waaay higher in THC content, and more and more people are eating and vaping and sucking on them, instead of simply puffing on a good ol’ college-style doobie.
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Drugs on Paper
Worse yet, in addition to being difficult to track, it was cheap to make and many times the potency of the drugs with which they were familiar.
Who’s To Blame?
After all, the victim may well have self-administered the fatal dose, or even procured it on their own — thereby exercising what at least appears to most observers to be freedom of choice.
Drugs on Paper
Worse yet, in addition to being difficult to track, it was cheap to make and many times the potency of the drugs with which they were familiar.
What We Can Learn from Estonia
...the situation has improved, mostly because of renewed efforts on the demand side. Estonia adopted harm reduction strategies used effectively in other countries, such as take-home naloxone; ready access to MAT; and efforts to destigmatize drug use and drug users.
The Storytellers
One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
Drugs in Rehab: Part 2
I was reminded that patients’ own goals can easily diverge from, or even directly contradict, the presumed goals of the professionals who treat them.
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A Young Gambler’s story
It’s a common misconception, that somehow repeated failures precede eventual success. They don’t.
Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
A Young Gambler’s story
It’s a common misconception, that somehow repeated failures precede eventual success. They don’t.
Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
Officers in the House
...with law enforcement agencies taking on vastly different roles, planning and practicing our response appears more important than in the past.
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A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they've always created problems for a percentage of users.
