Motivational Speaker
Even if the listener fails to respond to the message, the speaker will benefit from having shared it. When the two do connect, however, it can feel like a minor miracle.
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7 Trips to Rehab, Part One
These are issues that users seldom take into consideration, in the rush to get the drug. But healthcare professionals, and their attorneys, have to consider them.
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Mean Green
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
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A Backwards Look at a Celebrity OD
…it’s a story I must have heard a thousand times from people in treatment. Drug addicts getting together to form a mutual ‘support system’ for drug use.
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Hunter on Trial
…in the claustrophobic environment of a trial, it seems it’s still permissible to treat the consequences of this complex, multifactorial chronic disorder as simply the result of some poor soul’s irresponsible decision-making.
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The Perry file, part two
It’s gained acceptance as a remedy for a host of mental health problems, including major disorders.
That’s in spite of the fact that the FDA has yet to approve the drug for the treatment of any psychiatric condition.
Presidential Pill Mill?
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
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1st Person — A Greener Day
The fact is, about a third of US adults don’t drink at all, or they drink so occasionally as to qualify as nondrinkers. I’ve noticed how difficult it can be for some patients in addiction treatment to believe that.
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Celebs Getting Sober
These could be interpreted as signs that someone is in the Action stage of change. That’s not a bad place to be, provided you keep at it and don’t give up.
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Matthew Perry, Large in Life
If we conceive of addiction as a disease, Perry would represent those most vulnerable to it. Very little actual exposure to substances would be enough to trigger that pathology.
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A Comical Convocation
I’m never quite sure what sobriety means to a celebrity drug user – is it total abstinence from all drugs?
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A Parable of Addiction from Deep Space
What interested me was that this episode was first broadcast in 1988 – around the beginning of the prescription opioid epidemic.
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Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden!
Yes, it’s horrifying to read about the exploits of addicts in the grip of addiction — it’s horrifying for many of them, too — but is it something we should use against them, for purely political advantage?
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