In Luxury’s Lap, with lorazepam
I doubt the Pharma firm that makes and markets lorazepam could’ve hoped for a better ad for its product.
Most Addiction Specialists Support Psychedelics for SUDs?
I know many clinicians who otherwise support psychedelics for therapeutic use are nonetheless concerned about the cottage industry that could grow up around them if legalized.
In her recent memoir, journalist Olivia Nuzzi made a startling claim: during an extended online romance with a politician, identified elsewhere as RFK Jr., the current Secretary of Health and Human Services, her lover had admitted to smoking DMT — an hallucinogen and Schedule One controlled substance.
RFK Jr. promptly denied it, insisting he doesn’t know the author, outside of a single past interview.
The allegation attracted plenty of attention, partly due to RFK Jr.’s name and prominence in the Trump administration, and also because of his personal history of heroin addiction.
Of course, we have no way to know who’s telling the truth. Still, the stakes for the Secretary of Health are considerable. There’s the question of a public official breaking the law, as well as the potential loss of faith in the integrity of government officials in general.
“What’s left of that, at least,” quipped one observer.
Media accounts have been lurid. Here’s one...
RFK Jr. promptly denied it, insisting he doesn’t know the author, outside of a single past interview.
The allegation attracted plenty of attention, partly due to RFK Jr.’s name and prominence in the Trump administration, and also because of his personal history of heroin addiction.
Of course, we have no way to know who’s telling the truth. Still, the stakes for the Secretary of Health are considerable. There’s the question of a public official breaking the law, as well as the potential loss of faith in the integrity of government officials in general.
“What’s left of that, at least,” quipped one observer.
Media accounts have been lurid. Here’s one...
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In Luxury’s Lap, with lorazepam
I doubt the Pharma firm that makes and markets lorazepam could’ve hoped for a better ad for its product.
Pot and the Pregnant Person
They suggest... physicians and practitioners be trained in ways to address the topic with the patient, person to person, so they can reassure her that it isn’t a plot to penalize the woman, or to take away her baby.
Out of Focus
...plenty of Americans are involved as well, and presumably would continue their involvement in future, if they think they can get away with it.
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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.
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.
Shatter and Dab
Because of its extraordinary strength, shatter and its brother concentrates tend to attract more experienced users, in search of additional impact from drug use.
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.
