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.
What We Can Learn from Estonia
...the situation has improved, mostly because of renewed efforts on the demand side. Estonia adopted harm reduction strategies used effectively in other countries, such as take-home naloxone; ready access to MAT; and efforts to destigmatize drug use and drug users.
Some recently published research from a team at Northwestern University has concluded that, despite widespread opinion, marijuana does not positively impact the user’s quality of sleep.
Even though the user may believe that it does.
Poor quality sleep, including insomnia, is among the most common reasons given for marijuana use. The benefits of marijuana as an aid to sleep has long been subject to debate in the scientific community, however.
Now comes a study that may at long last put an end to at least some of the arguments.
The researchers made use of sophisticated wrist monitors to track the quality of sleep for some 1300 subjects over the course of 35 years, beginning in adolescence and extending into middle-age. They looked at both long-term users and those with more recent use. They measured the different aspects of sleep, including disturbances that the user might not be consciously aware of.
They found that cannabis use consistently resulted in:
Less...
Even though the user may believe that it does.
Poor quality sleep, including insomnia, is among the most common reasons given for marijuana use. The benefits of marijuana as an aid to sleep has long been subject to debate in the scientific community, however.
Now comes a study that may at long last put an end to at least some of the arguments.
The researchers made use of sophisticated wrist monitors to track the quality of sleep for some 1300 subjects over the course of 35 years, beginning in adolescence and extending into middle-age. They looked at both long-term users and those with more recent use. They measured the different aspects of sleep, including disturbances that the user might not be consciously aware of.
They found that cannabis use consistently resulted in:
Less...
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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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One Drug, Two Nations
It’s the same pattern as decades before — cocaine gets a foothold as a party drug, and spreads rapidly from there.
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.
One Drug, Two Nations
It’s the same pattern as decades before — cocaine gets a foothold as a party drug, and spreads rapidly from there.
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.
Drugs in Rehab: Part 2
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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A Young Gambler’s story
It’s a common misconception, that somehow repeated failures precede eventual success. They don’t.
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.
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.
