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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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by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 2, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 15, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 29, 2024 | Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 10, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 6, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 2, 2023 | Public Health | 0 |
CDC claims that 1 in 5 drug overdoses in 2020 – or 20% — involved people in those two sectors alone. Something to think about.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 16, 2023 | Addiction | 0 |
Extra naloxone doses were required to lift the victim out of a coma and lower the risk of respiratory arrest and death. Translation: New barriers to saving lives in the street. And more fatalities.
Read Moreby 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?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 7, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…the DEA tried to restrict kratom back in 2016 but the public outcry led them to rescind those restrictions.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 24, 2023 | In the News | 0 |
…it appears that chain pharmacists did in fact become concerned about the size or source of some of the opioid prescriptions written during this period. They reported it to their bosses at Corporate and were instructed to go ahead and fill the scripts anyway.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Which brings us to the issue of Supervised Injection Sites (SIS). An outbreak such as the one in New York is the strongest argument for these centers.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 13, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Because such approaches may not aim to get people off drugs – in some ways, it’s an acknowledgment that they probably won’t, regardless of our efforts – such programs can face opposition.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 27, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
The researchers were interested in whether receipt of such a letter would cause the physician to be more cautious in prescribing in future. The answer: It did.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 26, 2022 | Families | 0 |
People over 65 can be expected to be more vulnerable to the kind of problems that can accompany drug and alcohol use than younger folks.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 17, 2022 | Resources | 0 |
Of course, if we also counted the other ways that drinking can kill — via accidents (on the road, in the water, etc), suicides, falls, etc. — the 2020 total suddenly increases to 140,000 fatalities.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 13, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
Hint: Just insisting that you’re not bluffing this time won’t convince that young man, or many others of his kind. He’ll need to be shown.
In an atmosphere such as this – already ‘spoiled’, we might say – any response must be carefully thought through and planned.