The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 25, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 11, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eventually their iron control failed and problems re-emerged, usually far worse than before.
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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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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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