The Skaggs Case: A Last Update
...he did purchase and ingest the illegal opioids. He didn’t realize they contained fentanyl.
Will This Make a Difference?
And if there were damage, it’d be our brains that were affected, right? The very organ we’re asking now to evaluate its own functioning. It's not a happy thought.
Something about the Rob Reiner family tragedy that drew my attention: In an earlier interview, Rob had spoken of his deep dissatisfaction with some of the advice he had received, and presumably followed, from multiple (unnamed) experts -- beginning from when the family first recognized their youngest son’s drug problems, and sought help.
The advice: To give their loved one a choice between going to treatment and continuing to live at home, or refusing treatment, and leaving.
Advice such as that probably originated with a popular approach characterized as "tough love," that emerged during the drug epidemic of the late 20th Century. The idea was to make the privilege of living at home conditional on accepting and complying with treatment, including abstaining from drug use.
Family members were often reluctant to make this decision. Parents in particular worried what would happen if they weren’t around to protect their offspring from the consequences of the...
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The Skaggs Case: A Last Update
...he did purchase and ingest the illegal opioids. He didn’t realize they contained fentanyl.
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 War with No Ending
At present, the emphasis is on interdiction, the supply side. Meanwhile, we struggle with cuts in resources for treatment and prevention – the demand side.
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“Scromiting”
It must come as a shock to someone who’s been a regular user for a while, to suddenly without warning begin experiencing violent vomiting and pain.
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.
“Scromiting”
It must come as a shock to someone who’s been a regular user for a while, to suddenly without warning begin experiencing violent vomiting and pain.
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.
Anonymity — Out of Date?
...isn’t TikTok and influencer culture undeniably afflicted with far too much of,that same “ambition and illegitimate pride” that AA’s founders felt they must avoid?
A Treatment Program in a Corrections Setting
...it seems an awful waste to miss out on an opportunity to address their alcohol and drug problems while they’re literally a ‘captive’ audience.
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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.
