As one observer put it, we know far more about vaping nicotine than we do about cannabis, and we don’t know that much about vaping nicotine.
…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
...a chatbot doesn’t actually feel anything for the user. It’s simply doing what it was programmed to do. Principally, that’s serving as a perfect mirror.
At the same time, people do keep overdosing and dying, apparently in record numbers.
…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
Like addicts deprived of their drug of choice, the compulsive exerciser may report a deep sense of loss, accompanied by symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, depression, anxiety.
They must be getting some kind of reward, or they wouldn’t keep coming back. Perhaps it’s the placebo effect?
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.
One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
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
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
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.
...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.
...with law enforcement agencies taking on vastly different roles, planning and practicing our response appears more important than in the past.
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
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.
