DUI During a Pandemic
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.
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by 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.
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 28, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 10, 2020 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 21, 2020 | Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 18, 2020 | Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 10, 2020 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 15, 2019 | Public Policy | 0 |
Alcohol still gets credit for close to 90,000 deaths every year– more than other drugs, even in the middle of an epidemic.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 11, 2019 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
It can be flagrant or subtle, but damage it will be. Sadly, the drinker is usually the last one to become aware of it. In fact, many never do.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 20, 2018 | Prevention, Public Policy | 1 |
We will have to deal with electronic smoking, which has exploded among young people even as cigarette use has declined.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 25, 2018 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Of course, the drinker isn’t aware of having entered a blackout. Far as they’re concerned, things are proceeding as normal.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 20, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
More likely the hope is to increase awareness of the risks, and encourage drinkers to limit consumption.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 7, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
Sometimes powerful business leaders sound like drunk drivers or corner drug dealers. Rationalizing, externalizing, minimizing…
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 3, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
After all, you can’t afford to stop selling it. That’s not how you get promoted. What you need is science that seems to confirm your biases.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 5, 2018 | Public Health | 0 |
There’s an ongoing search among users for ways to either improve the high (which escalating tolerance threatens to steal away) or suppress the withdrawal symptoms.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 22, 2018 | Public Policy | 0 |
…those users have fewer resources to pay for healthcare and legal problems that often result from more drinking. So who picks up the tab?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 24, 2017 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
Of course, we still lose several hundred thousand people annually. But that’s actually progress.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 9, 2017 | In the News | 0 |
Once the demand for a drug is well-established, as it is for alcohol, people will find a way to get it, legal or otherwise.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 5, 2017 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |
Like the film where Amy Shumer chugs boxed wine, and inadvertently drives up sales to admiring fans.
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