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...it's a common dilemma for many people in her situation -- do I really have to give up alcohol forever?
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 16, 2025 | Addiction | 0 |
...it's a common dilemma for many people in her situation -- do I really have to give up alcohol forever?
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 12, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 10, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 4, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 4, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 25, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
One legislator worried that people who suffered from trauma and various social inequities needed alcohol as a form of self-medication.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 11, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Not surprisingly, people with more money kept right on drinking the way they had before, apparently unmoved by increased expense.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 8, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Public health is a pipe dream when, as happened in the 1990’s, a typical adult male Russian consumed an estimated one hundred and eighty bottles of vodka annually.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 29, 2023 | Resources | 0 |
Testing done at the hospital or emergency room would presumably be more reliable than the roadside variety, but hospital samples are often taken several hours after an accident, when the driver’s BAL has already dropped.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 18, 2023 | Resources | 0 |
…there could have been dozens if not hundreds of articles and TV features actively promoting incorrect information. Conditioning the audience against newer and more accurate findings, if they contradicted what had become popular belief.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 30, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Colleges, in my experience, have a weirdly ambivalent attitude towards this kind of behavior from their students.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 16, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
That’s why I’m always curious when someone in treatment claims to be a ‘moderate’ drinker. I can’t help wondering if they’re not just addicted in a different way than someone with obvious physical dependence
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…of course alcohol isn’t healthy. It’s a damn toxin, people.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 6, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Those restrictions existed to inhibit people’s tendencies to abuse alcohol. In their absence, problems related to excessive drinking increased, substantially.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 17, 2022 | Resources | 0 |
Of course, if we also counted the other ways that drinking can kill — via accidents (on the road, in the water, etc), suicides, falls, etc. — the 2020 total suddenly increases to 140,000 fatalities.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
I imagine it takes a special kind of practitioner to push aside the barriers in the system to get to the SUD that lies underneath, even when he or she knows it’s there.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 24, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
These physicians are fully aware of the opposition that such proposals draw. Not only from within the alcohol industry itself, but also from drinkers who feel strongly that how much and how often they choose to drink is nobody’s darn business but their own.
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