Sad Circle
An athlete with a gambling problem goes into deep debt, can’t possibly pay it off. Solution: borrow even more money, adding a second debt to what remains of the first.
We Don’t Want A New Drug
It’s an opioid, naturally. Synthetic in origin, probably highly addictive, if it doesn’t kill the user first — which it will probably do.
Given the explosion in sports-related gambling–– 40 million active bettors, $170 billion total wagered, 95% of all wagers placed online — I’d hate to be responsible for dealing with a big time betting scandal in a major sport.
Sticking with the NBA as our example, here are a few of the ways a league can respond when a new scandal hits the headlines:
Administrative Leave and Suspensions: This is a basic corporate move to ensure that whatever the offending behavior, it’s at least no longer happening on the company’s watch. Suspension includes paycheck as well as player. The money, however, is deducted on a per-game basis, rather than all at once, somewhat reducing the impact of the financial loss.
Restrictions on betting activities: Where a sports betting operation is also involved, the league may decide to temporarily restrict certain types of high-stakes bets, especially those risky but popular “prop” bets that gamblers place on “a specific occurrence or...
Sticking with the NBA as our example, here are a few of the ways a league can respond when a new scandal hits the headlines:
Administrative Leave and Suspensions: This is a basic corporate move to ensure that whatever the offending behavior, it’s at least no longer happening on the company’s watch. Suspension includes paycheck as well as player. The money, however, is deducted on a per-game basis, rather than all at once, somewhat reducing the impact of the financial loss.
Restrictions on betting activities: Where a sports betting operation is also involved, the league may decide to temporarily restrict certain types of high-stakes bets, especially those risky but popular “prop” bets that gamblers place on “a specific occurrence or...
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Sad Circle
An athlete with a gambling problem goes into deep debt, can’t possibly pay it off. Solution: borrow even more money, adding a second debt to what remains of the first.
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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A Tough Task – Policing Sports
...the sports gambling industry continues to expand, much of the growth coming among the young, helping to create a whole new generation of problem gamblers.
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.
A Tough Task – Policing Sports
...the sports gambling industry continues to expand, much of the growth coming among the young, helping to create a whole new generation of problem gamblers.
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.
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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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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.
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...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.
