The Pot Paradox
“… Is [cannabis] good for you? It's hard to find the literature that suggests that. Is it neutral for you? Maybe, for some people. Is it harmful for some people? Absolutely."
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by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 8, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“… Is [cannabis] good for you? It's hard to find the literature that suggests that. Is it neutral for you? Maybe, for some people. Is it harmful for some people? Absolutely."
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 4, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 9, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 12, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 14, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 28, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 12, 2023 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
The so-called sober homes turned out to be dilapidated houses in and around Phoenix, offering little or nothing in the way of services and featuring plenty of drug use– even trafficking. All paid for by Medicaid, to the tune of hundreds of millions in Federal funds.
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 | Oct 10, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
I was surprised to learn that the antidepressant effects of ketamine were completely blocked by naltrexone, an opioid antagonist. That certainly suggests ketamine is making use of the brain’s opioid systems…
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 19, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
Marketed as supplements, they’re excused from having to inform us. And they don’t.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 14, 2022 | Public Health | 0 |
…what would be a physician’s motive for intentionally spreading bad information? Greed, perhaps. Maybe in hopes of boosting sales from which they ultimately expect to benefit
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 25, 2022 | Public Policy | 0 |
I saw our country as a nation that had no clue what drug abuse and addiction were about, yet rushed ahead to ‘fix’ it and made exactly the sort of mistakes that people make when they’re desperate for a solution to a problem they never really understood in the first place.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 27, 2022 | Addiction Clinicians, Addictive Substances | 0 |
Bad intent is not required for an article or broadcast segment to qualify as potentially harmful misinformation. It only needs to be present in the most provocative way in the right forum.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 13, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Originally developed to replace PCP as a fast-acting anesthetic, it quickly morphed into a party drug, then as another product sold in street drug markets.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 18, 2021 | Public Health | 0 |
Some will represent the very best medicine has to offer, and others will be, well, not so great.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 23, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 1 |
But then I remembered that many in law enforcement had never accepted the opinion of medical experts on the issue.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 29, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
Will we at some point begin to see people arrive in treatment programs primarily to deal with their own harmful, possibly obsessive-compulsive relationship with social media?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 15, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
It’s not one or the other, it’s about the synergy between them– toxic ideas, with a platform that allows them to spread.
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