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.
Cruising With Cannabis
There's not a lot of disagreement about the potential for cannabis intoxication to impair driving performance, though without an accepted standard and a reliable roadside test, it's not of much value in a courtroom.
A familiar story about a family in distress over one member’s drinking:
Dustin Poirier Details Broken Relationship With Father Struggling With Alcoholism
Poirier happens to be a celebrated MMA fighter, one “whose parents separated when he was just 5 years old.” After they divorced, his father drifted deeper into chronic alcoholism and eventually, homelessness.
His grown children, all doing well on their own, are still trying to get him to quit drinking, and not having much success.
”My sister went out and found him and spoke to him and told him that we were willing to help him out, but he doesn't, you know, he doesn't want it," Poirier explained to a reporter. "He wants to, you know, he wants to drink until he dies…”
It’s far from the first time I’ve heard that, mainly in hospital settings, from family members of late- stage alcoholics. Most interpret such statements as evidence that the drinker has already given up, lost any hope of or desire to...
Dustin Poirier Details Broken Relationship With Father Struggling With Alcoholism
Poirier happens to be a celebrated MMA fighter, one “whose parents separated when he was just 5 years old.” After they divorced, his father drifted deeper into chronic alcoholism and eventually, homelessness.
His grown children, all doing well on their own, are still trying to get him to quit drinking, and not having much success.
”My sister went out and found him and spoke to him and told him that we were willing to help him out, but he doesn't, you know, he doesn't want it," Poirier explained to a reporter. "He wants to, you know, he wants to drink until he dies…”
It’s far from the first time I’ve heard that, mainly in hospital settings, from family members of late- stage alcoholics. Most interpret such statements as evidence that the drinker has already given up, lost any hope of or desire to...
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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
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.
Kid-Friendly Pot
I couldn’t find any evidence of consequences suffered by the pot peddlers, so can only assume there weren’t many. And it does look as if they’re still making the same products in the same packages.
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He’d Rather Die?
Someone as enmeshed in the disease as this drinker may have lost, at least temporarily, the ability to make the right decision.
He’d Rather Die?
Someone as enmeshed in the disease as this drinker may have lost, at least temporarily, the ability to make the right decision.
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.”
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.
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.
