An Unusual Way to Die
I keep waiting for the intrepid detective to show up and take charge, solve the mystery.
My husband quit drinking, but he’s still not himself.
That's because he's better, but he's still a long way from well.
Two immensely popular medications for weight loss have now drawn attention for their potential to treat Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). From one of several articles on the subject:
Weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Mounjaro could slash alcohol-related hospital admissions
Subheading: The analysis found GLP-1 drugs slashed the risk of alcohol-related hospital admission by 26% compared with other diabetes medicines
Wegovy is actually much better-known as Ozempic, the wildly successful diabetes medication now rebranded for use in weight loss. Both contain the same active medication, semaglutide, but with different guidelines for prescribers that reflect their different purposes.
The study, involving some 40,000 patients in the UK, did confirm the usefulness of GLP-1 medications in reducing the risk of hospitalization among heavy drinkers. That’s important because excessive alcohol consumption is a factor in so many hospital admissions.
I recall one study finding to the effect...
Weight-loss drugs Wegovy and Mounjaro could slash alcohol-related hospital admissions
Subheading: The analysis found GLP-1 drugs slashed the risk of alcohol-related hospital admission by 26% compared with other diabetes medicines
Wegovy is actually much better-known as Ozempic, the wildly successful diabetes medication now rebranded for use in weight loss. Both contain the same active medication, semaglutide, but with different guidelines for prescribers that reflect their different purposes.
The study, involving some 40,000 patients in the UK, did confirm the usefulness of GLP-1 medications in reducing the risk of hospitalization among heavy drinkers. That’s important because excessive alcohol consumption is a factor in so many hospital admissions.
I recall one study finding to the effect...
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An Unusual Way to Die
I keep waiting for the intrepid detective to show up and take charge, solve the mystery.
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.
Kid-Friendly Pot
I couldn’t find any evidence of consequences suffered by the pot peddlers, so can only assume there weren’t many. And it does look as if they’re still making the same products in the same packages.
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GLP-1 for Drinkers?
The vast majority of those patients would eventually be discharged with no mention at all of the role alcohol played in their hospitalization. That’s stigma in action.
An ADHD-maxxer
Those signs and symptoms happen to be shared by most people who arrive in treatment for opioid or alcohol or stimulant disorders. They're behaviors that clinicians use to help them identify addictive disorders in their patients.
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.
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.
GLP-1 for Drinkers?
The vast majority of those patients would eventually be discharged with no mention at all of the role alcohol played in their hospitalization. That’s stigma in action.
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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.
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.
