More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
White Collar Addiction and Relapse
For most recovering folks, establishing sobriety included a conscious, deliberate commitment to healthy involvement with others in recovery, accepting guidance and support instead of relying solely on one's own resources.
Now here's a question worth exploring. From a recent NPR feature:
Marijuana farms are increasingly Chinese-run. Why?
Last I heard, Chinese involvement in the US cannabis industry was restricted to a labor force willing to work cheap. Farm workers brought to America expecting to plant and pick fruit and vegetables instead found themselves stuck on "pot plantations," some operating illegally on Native land in the Southwest. We first posted about this way back in 2020:
https://treatmentandrecoverysystems.com/native-cannabis/
The vast majority spoke little or no English and had no real way to leave, knowing that as soon as they stepped off tribal lands, they would be scooped up by law enforcement.
Things haven’t improved. The NPR interview cites the example of "L" as he's recruited and transported to the US.
“First, L flew to Turkey, then Ecuador. Then he took a succession of buses and boats and spent a grueling month walking to Mexico through the hazardous Darien...
Marijuana farms are increasingly Chinese-run. Why?
Last I heard, Chinese involvement in the US cannabis industry was restricted to a labor force willing to work cheap. Farm workers brought to America expecting to plant and pick fruit and vegetables instead found themselves stuck on "pot plantations," some operating illegally on Native land in the Southwest. We first posted about this way back in 2020:
https://treatmentandrecoverysystems.com/native-cannabis/
The vast majority spoke little or no English and had no real way to leave, knowing that as soon as they stepped off tribal lands, they would be scooped up by law enforcement.
Things haven’t improved. The NPR interview cites the example of "L" as he's recruited and transported to the US.
“First, L flew to Turkey, then Ecuador. Then he took a succession of buses and boats and spent a grueling month walking to Mexico through the hazardous Darien...
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More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
The Power of Drug Company Marketing
...a number of years ago, the Institute of Medicine set forth guidelines intended to reduce the influence of advertising on how physicians prescribed medications... to date, relatively few physicians have actually adopted those guidelines.
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What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
Pink Cocaine, it isn’t
When I've seen people attempt to explain their motives, they usually blame it on the trust they had in their source -- whoever gave or sold it to them at the time. That trust was misplaced, they complain.
An Interesting Case From Virginia
If I had to recommend something, it would be for schools and parents to grab onto those evidence-based approaches and make them integral to your school culture.
A Success, but with Complications
But if he feels he needs the medication to function normally, I see no reason for the rest of us to object. I mean, we don't want to disincentivize someone's recovery, do we?
Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
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Exercising for Chronic Pain Relief
We've known for several decades that regular exercise, even the mild sort, helps lessen symptoms of depression. It comes as no surprise that it may also help with CPS and the mood problems that accompany it.
Borderline, Revisited
The term was invented in the 1930’s to describe someone prone to becoming psychotic or severely disturbed under stress, but who otherwise was capable of functioning normally.
Self-Diagnosis
Most of the time, there’s an extended period in which the drinker is engaged in something called ‘comparing out’. That's when they're focused on what isn't wrong with their drinking, and ignoring or minimizing what is.
Exercising for Chronic Pain Relief
We've known for several decades that regular exercise, even the mild sort, helps lessen symptoms of depression. It comes as no surprise that it may also help with CPS and the mood problems that accompany it.
Drugs in Jail
If 70% or more of a jail population has been identified as having a drug or alcohol problem – that does happen – then what you’re really operating is a treatment center that happens to have bars on the windows and guards at the entrance.
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First Person Hard Charger
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
First Person Hard Charger
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
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.
