Pot Doesn’t Help Us Sleep

One common symptom of withdrawal is sleep disruption, for which the most direct remedy is, naturally, more of the drug.

It’s no longer just older, heavy, daily pot users who are thought vulnerable to the dreaded Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS), and the screaming pain and projectile vomiting that go along with it.

Newer research suggests that the illness has established itself among  younger users as well , including 15 to 24-year-olds and possibly even younger.

That wasn’t supposed to happen. Ever since CHS emerged a dozen or so years ago, science has operated on the assumption that it was a result of long-term use. After all, that’s who was showing up in emergency rooms — people in their 30s and 40s, often admitting to pot use 5 or more times daily.

Not anymore. Late teens and young adults are now the fastest growing segment of CHS sufferers.

It seems that no one is quite sure what caused the shift in the CHS patient population. The most popular theory is that it is a response to the ever-increasing THC content in today’s cannabis products. It isn’t difficult to find...

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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.

An Inside Look at Drug Court

Even today, the estimated cost for keeping someone under drug court supervision is in the range of $2500 to $4000 a year. Compare that to estimates of  $20,000 to as high as $50,000 (in some expensive states), simply to maintain someone in a cell for the same period.

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RFKJr. and the Pouch

“Pouch” nicotine is a synthetic form of the drug that has been enhanced for rapid absorption and speedy delivery to the brain — changes that render it far more addictive. 

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.

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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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A significant percent who enter treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), will also have a moderate to severe problem with cannabis, although they may not recognize that.

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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

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

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.

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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.

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