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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
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by 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
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 6, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 17, 2022 | Resources | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 24, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 29, 2022 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
More impressive results have come from simply increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages. States that have done so have been rewarded, mostly through reductions in the consequences of excessive drinking.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 22, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
It’s still what we tend to think of as ‘normal’. Held up as what we hope to return to, someday when the pandemic is over and sanity has returned.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 23, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“It helps recruit students if the college has a reputation as someplace you can party,” he said. “But nobody wants to be known as the place where kids are likely to get in trouble. That scares away the parents.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 7, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“These findings contrast with scientific and governmental guidelines on safe drinking limits.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 13, 2022 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Yes, to an addiction counselor it will seem reminiscent of the control strategies employed by many folks who eventually wind up in treatment.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 30, 2021 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
From the alcoholic beverage industry’s viewpoint, the pandemic has a pronounced silver lining. Sales are up and allegedly likely to continue at higher levels even as the pandemic finally fades.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 27, 2021 | Public Policy | 0 |
…it’s foolish to expect an industry built around making, distributing, and selling (for immense profit) abusable substances to regulate themselves.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 30, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…we represent that large segment of drinkers for whom the alcohol industry’s American “success story” turned out to be more like a bad dream.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 19, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Americans have spent the last year indulging in more drinking than before, blaming it on the pandemic, lockdowns, etc. Are we really ready to give that up?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 13, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
I suppose he was happy for people to see him as pigheaded, since it covered up the real problem: His rapidly deteriorating cognitive function.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 14, 2021 | Addiction | 0 |
Considering the number of cognitive errors involved, it shouldn’t be difficult to understand why so many first offenders are eventually arrested for a second offense.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 28, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
Every so often I’d run into family members who’d let the situation go in the belief that treatment was futile until the drinker themselves decided they ‘wanted’ to quit.
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