Pot Doesn’t Help Us Sleep
One common symptom of withdrawal is sleep disruption, for which the most direct remedy is, naturally, more of the drug.
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First Person: A Change Has Come
Eventually their iron control failed and problems re-emerged, usually far worse than before.
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The Return of Methamphetamine
Reports claim the new, more potent meth on today’s streets leads to much higher rates of unintended overdose, including the fatal kind.
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Drugstore Cowboy
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
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“Addicted”? Or “dependent”?
But it’s still confusing for many people outside the field, since unlike psychiatry, they don’t revise their thinking every couple decades.
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Opioids for Pain Relief? It Depends…
The pharmaceutical industry, in spite of their immense resources, may not be the best candidate to come up with a solution.
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New Club Drugs
Then again, there was a time when heroin addiction was primarily an urban phenomenon, and that didn’t last.
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Believing in the Disease
There’s a big difference between “knowing” that something is a disease, and actually treating it as one.
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Evolution of a Disease Concept
A model generally supersedes other models not because it is perfect in every respect, but because it seems to explain certain aspects better than its predecessors.
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