An Odd Situation Indeed
"...Patients who test negative, and their clinicians, may have a false sense of security about use of opioids…” Something that we know from long, long experience can be dangerous.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 28, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
"...Patients who test negative, and their clinicians, may have a false sense of security about use of opioids…” Something that we know from long, long experience can be dangerous.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 24, 2025 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 24, 2025 | Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 21, 2025 | Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 31, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 24, 2025 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 20, 2025 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
“Overdose deaths from carfentanil…[increased] from 29 between January and June 2023 to 238 in that same period in 2024.” That’s a heck of a year-over-year increase, although it still represents only a small percentage of total fatalities.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 24, 2025 | Public Policy | 0 |
Perhaps society should focus on finding solutions that are demonstrably effective, instead of simply boosting the severity of punishment.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 19, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
…it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted– for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 5, 2024 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
“We build a 10 foot wall, they bring an 11 foot ladder.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 4, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
Instead, our habit has been to rush head first in one direction, then reverse and rush back the opposite way
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 24, 2024 | Addiction, Families | 0 |
Genetics appear to play a role, of course; so do environmental factors, including trauma — something that often haunts such families.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 21, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
A logical starting place for a community concerned about drug use would be with data collected by their own health departments and criminal justice agencies, with the aim of funding and implementing a continuum of services that reflects the actual (and likely future) needs of their own citizens.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 7, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
In some instances involving the elderly, the practitioner thinks treatment isn’t worth the effort. “I don’t see the point, especially when she may not have that much time left anyway,”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 30, 2024 | Prevention | 0 |
Make it a continuing effort, using strategies based in evidence, and harnessing the power of human interaction– instead of relying on a burst of anti-drug education, however intense.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 19, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Ironically, the same research indicates that those opioids chronic pain patients depended on weren’t really doing much for their pain.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 15, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
…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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 1, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 1 |
How’s the saying go? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
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