Commercial Determinants of Health
In the neverending hunt for financial rewards, poor consumer health can be viewed as collateral damage.
Fatal for These Fans
In the absence of much factual information, wild theories have proliferated.
Let’s begin with a recent NBC News telecast about a young man whose online gambling addiction began at age 11 and escalated throughout his teen years. He’s now giving prevention lectures to middle and high school students.
He got hooked on betting at age 11. By college he gambled 15 hours a day.
Accounts like this serve a purpose: they draw attention from the media, simply because they’re so darn dramatic. I was reminded of other stories from past eras, about kids smoking their parents’ crack, or getting into the family stash of edibles. They can be used to illustrate some of the risks associated with addiction in a way the general public can understand.
For instance, denial.
“You don’t even realize that what you’re doing is harming you as it’s happening…” one young man says on camera. Telling oneself that “I’m not that kind of person“ and “it can’t happen to me“ is a mindset essential to escalating addiction. For most, the reality of a...
He got hooked on betting at age 11. By college he gambled 15 hours a day.
Accounts like this serve a purpose: they draw attention from the media, simply because they’re so darn dramatic. I was reminded of other stories from past eras, about kids smoking their parents’ crack, or getting into the family stash of edibles. They can be used to illustrate some of the risks associated with addiction in a way the general public can understand.
For instance, denial.
“You don’t even realize that what you’re doing is harming you as it’s happening…” one young man says on camera. Telling oneself that “I’m not that kind of person“ and “it can’t happen to me“ is a mindset essential to escalating addiction. For most, the reality of a...
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Is Social Media Addictive?
It would be difficult for the defense to argue that this isn’t done intentionally, for the purpose of keeping patrons coming back for more. And more, and more.
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.
Commercial Determinants of Health
In the neverending hunt for financial rewards, poor consumer health can be viewed as collateral damage.
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Gambling, Teen Style
I suspect many parents would be surprised to learn that ”The students in the audience…are all too familiar with the explosion of apps that make it easy to bet on individual plays, international politics and awards show flubs.”
Gambling, Teen Style
I suspect many parents would be surprised to learn that ”The students in the audience…are all too familiar with the explosion of apps that make it easy to bet on individual plays, international politics and awards show flubs.”
Update on Pot-related DWI…
Apparently, cannabis testing yields an unacceptable number of false positive results.
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.
How Many is Too Many?
After all, they call this a "relapsing" disorder.
Withdrawal Management, in Practice
Now detox has become withdrawal management, and the cookie-cutter approach is no more.
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The ‘Have To” Disorder
Compulsive behaviors are generally thought to stem from anxiety, and that’s certainly common enough among the newly clean and sober.
The ‘Have To” Disorder
Compulsive behaviors are generally thought to stem from anxiety, and that’s certainly common enough among the newly clean and sober.
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.
