A Plan Worth Reviving
...even today, smoking is credited with contributing to more than 480,000 deaths in the US every year. By comparison, alcohol is given credit for 178,000 fatalities. And all illicit drugs combined, 70,000.
Labels & Screening
(per the Surgeon General), "...alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year..."
This is from a PBS report in January of last year:
FDA releases plan to make cigarettes less addictive, but its fate rests with Trump
As feared, the plan was lost in the transition to the new Administration, and with it, a long- anticipated effort to reduce the nicotine content in tobacco products.
If adopted, the plan would have applied only to cigars, cigarettes, and pipe tobacco. Other popular products — electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches among them — would not have been affected.
The timing seems right: Adult smokers have declined steadily in number, from almost 50% in the late 1960’s to just 9.9% in the present day. That’s a remarkable achievement, but with more than 25 million adults still hooked, there’s plenty of work left to do.
Why can’t the FDA simply order the elimination of all nicotine from cigarettes?
First, the FDA is prohibited from total elimination of nicotine, by law. I didn’t realize that. I have to think the tobacco...
FDA releases plan to make cigarettes less addictive, but its fate rests with Trump
As feared, the plan was lost in the transition to the new Administration, and with it, a long- anticipated effort to reduce the nicotine content in tobacco products.
If adopted, the plan would have applied only to cigars, cigarettes, and pipe tobacco. Other popular products — electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches among them — would not have been affected.
The timing seems right: Adult smokers have declined steadily in number, from almost 50% in the late 1960’s to just 9.9% in the present day. That’s a remarkable achievement, but with more than 25 million adults still hooked, there’s plenty of work left to do.
Why can’t the FDA simply order the elimination of all nicotine from cigarettes?
First, the FDA is prohibited from total elimination of nicotine, by law. I didn’t realize that. I have to think the tobacco...
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Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
New Money or Not?
It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months... now to be released late.
A Plan Worth Reviving
...even today, smoking is credited with contributing to more than 480,000 deaths in the US every year. By comparison, alcohol is given credit for 178,000 fatalities. And all illicit drugs combined, 70,000.
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Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
Addicted to Exercise?
Like addicts deprived of their drug of choice, the compulsive exerciser may report a deep sense of loss, accompanied by symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, depression, anxiety.
Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
Life in a Hot Spot
Make it a continuing effort, using strategies based in evidence, and harnessing the power of human interaction-- instead of relying on a burst of anti-drug education, however intense.
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.
Doubts about Diagnosis
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
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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
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
Parenting Under The Influence
Children raised in such families are more likely to be exposed to violence, to initiate their own substance use at an earlier age, and to have mental health problems in childhood.
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.
