Safe Injection in the Big Apple
Do you want them here with us, in range of immediate help? Or lying dead in the bathroom of your local fast-food joint?
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by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 24, 2023 | Treatment | 0 |
Do you want them here with us, in range of immediate help? Or lying dead in the bathroom of your local fast-food joint?
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 14, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 22, 2022 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 19, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 25, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 15, 2022 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 4, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
CDC reports that tobacco use is “…the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the U.S.” Nothing else comes close…
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 6, 2022 | Addiction, Families, In the News | 0 |
Research into long-term recovery has been prominent in the past — why not revive it?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 8, 2021 | Public Policy, Resources | 0 |
The roots of opposition are on an emotional level that doesn’t readily respond to the logic of science. The danger is that the public will be persuaded and take actions that are ultimately not in their own best interests.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 1, 2018 | In the News | 0 |
That’s not a large percent of the user population, but it’s among the sickest. That along might be enough to justify the investment; I’m sure a number of lives have been saved along the way.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 24, 2018 | Public Policy | 0 |
Nonetheless, in most instances it’s an a priori resistance rooted in fear, rather than legitimate objections.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 27, 2017 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of patients who drop out or otherwise leave maintenance programs return to heroin at rates of 80% or higher.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 9, 2017 | In the News | 0 |
He compares the patients he treats, who are often homeless, to “outcasts” and ‘lepers”, who have been “derided, despised, and marginalized.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 8, 2016 | Public Health, Treatment | 0 |
So even if drug use decreases, and clients continue on methadone, they don’t necessarily make the other much-desired (by society) changes — such as giving up crime.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 24, 2016 | Addiction Clinicians, Programs, Thinking About Addiction | 1 |
In terms of a comfortable detox, Suboxone was a success. In terms of a return to opiate use, it was a failure.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 24, 2015 | Public Health, Public Policy | 0 |
It makes perfect sense to do something that’s been shown to be effective at limiting one very important adverse consequence to the individual and society
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 17, 2015 | Programs, Treatment | 0 |
My longstanding rule is to design your program to treat your population, not some idealized group of subjects who did well in a research setting with a significantly different structure.
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