Another surge of “Tranq”
...the outcome can be serious. In some cases, we're told, untreated lesions have led to amputation.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 12, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
...the outcome can be serious. In some cases, we're told, untreated lesions have led to amputation.
by C. Scott McMillin | May 16, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 25, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 11, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 9, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 15, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
From a treatment perspective, our goal has to be to provide patients with accurate information about cannabis use and its associated risks, so that their decisions will be informed ones.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 24, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
When the trip ends, the writer acknowledges, the user may be “…throwing up or having trouble at the other end.”
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 | Oct 27, 2022 | Recovery | 0 |
Not an unusual path for the disease to take. That year of deliberate abstention indicates that Perry was aware that his problems were growing worse.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 7, 2022 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
One common symptom of withdrawal is sleep disruption, for which the most direct remedy is, naturally, more of the drug.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 28, 2022 | Addiction | 1 |
I asked a number of the attending docs if they’d spoken with the patient about the problem, and was startled by how rarely the answer was yes.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 24, 2022 | Addiction | 0 |
She was continually being surprised when others reported what she’d said and done during her blackouts. The memories themselves never returned.
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 | Apr 26, 2021 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…cannabis, particularly in the more potent forms that characterize contemporary use, does alter how people think and feel.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 28, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
Every so often I’d run into family members who’d let the situation go in the belief that treatment was futile until the drinker themselves decided they ‘wanted’ to quit.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 8, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
Eventually their iron control failed and problems re-emerged, usually far worse than before.
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