Still Counting Drinks, Eh?
In practical terms, it's far more helpful for a working counselor to focus on the problems that result, directly or indirectly, from high-intensity drinking, than on the amounts themselves.
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by C. Scott McMillin | May 22, 2025 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
In practical terms, it's far more helpful for a working counselor to focus on the problems that result, directly or indirectly, from high-intensity drinking, than on the amounts themselves.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 3, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
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by C. Scott McMillin | May 30, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
As THC content rises, the effects of THC change. The risk of problems goes up along with it.
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Advocates for the migrant workers want us to remember that the source of the pot we use for pleasure may well have been what amounts to slave labor.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 9, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Once again based on experience, I’m confident that many of the folks who will try psilocybin in future, because of all the favorable publicity, will fall into those ‘excluded’ categories.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 19, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
And if there were damage, it’d be our brains that were affected, right? The very organ we’re asking now to evaluate its own functioning. It’s not a happy thought.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
In 1961, two Harvard students ended up in the mental hospital after consuming psilocybin…” Not long afterwards, Harvard lost much of its enthusiasm for the (psilocybin research) program.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 6, 2023 | Addiction, In the News | 0 |
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?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 16, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Since so many millions of people use cannabis – long the world’s most widely used illicit drug — and the population of users is rising fast, it’s a legitimate cause for concern.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 12, 2022 | Resources | 0 |
If someone was sick enough at some point to have been hospitalized for treatment of an SUD, they’re statistically more likely to suffer from other diseases later in life.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
I think poisoned Halloween candy would be extremely unlikely but potentially devastating to whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end.
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 | Mar 10, 2022 | Addictive Substances, Families | 0 |
…it can certainly make a young child sick. In some cases, it may even trigger a seizure.
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