No More Drink Limits
It’s ironic these revised recommendations were issued in 2026, since the last few years have seen an abundance of findings as to the serious health consequences of drinking-- including various cancers
Diagnosis: Towards Validity and Consistency
The way addicts and alcoholics themselves talk about their condition (“an emotional disease,” “a parasite the feeds on our emotions”, “an emotional cancer,” “a fear based disease”) is rarely considered in theories of addiction.
This showed up awhile back in The Guardian:
Trump administration cancels up to $1.9bn for substance use and mental health
My initial thought: So it’s finally happened. Letters had begun to arrive at providers of addiction and mental health services, announcing that their grant-funded programs were officially defunded, as of now.
I doubt it came as a total surprise. I’ve been warning clients that something like this was in the offing since the day after the election.
The only questions: when it would happen, which programs would be impacted, and exactly how big the total cuts would be.
Turns out it was a lot: almost $2 billion.
Things were about to get ugly.
But then, something weird happened. Another article appeared, the very next day.
US health officials reverse course and reinstate $1.9bn to mental health and substance use
Amazingly, in the space of hours, a group of Congress-critters had staged an "intervention" of sorts to persuade the...
Trump administration cancels up to $1.9bn for substance use and mental health
My initial thought: So it’s finally happened. Letters had begun to arrive at providers of addiction and mental health services, announcing that their grant-funded programs were officially defunded, as of now.
I doubt it came as a total surprise. I’ve been warning clients that something like this was in the offing since the day after the election.
The only questions: when it would happen, which programs would be impacted, and exactly how big the total cuts would be.
Turns out it was a lot: almost $2 billion.
Things were about to get ugly.
But then, something weird happened. Another article appeared, the very next day.
US health officials reverse course and reinstate $1.9bn to mental health and substance use
Amazingly, in the space of hours, a group of Congress-critters had staged an "intervention" of sorts to persuade the...
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No More Drink Limits
It’s ironic these revised recommendations were issued in 2026, since the last few years have seen an abundance of findings as to the serious health consequences of drinking-- including various cancers
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.
A System Transformed
Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
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Your Program’s CUT! Or maybe not…
Their appeal was based on the extreme need of the American people for programs that worked and deserved to be continued rather than sacrificed to the gods of the budget.
A Massive Growth Spurt for Gambling
...a 24-fold increase in six short years. Almost all of it in the form of bets placed online. No casino, no off-track betting parlor required.
The Menace of Disposable Vapes
"Disposable" means the devices can neither be recharged nor refilled. They exist to supply an addictive drug to repeat customers, preferably on a daily basis, quite possibly over a lifetime.
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.
Your Program’s CUT! Or maybe not…
Their appeal was based on the extreme need of the American people for programs that worked and deserved to be continued rather than sacrificed to the gods of the budget.
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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.
Overstimulated?
I was nonetheless surprised to learn that one of the areas where use increased the most was among people in their 70s.
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.
