A Surprising Connection
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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by 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.
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Research into long-term recovery has been prominent in the past — why not revive it?
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…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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2019 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
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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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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The pharmaceutical industry, in spite of their immense resources, may not be the best candidate to come up with a solution.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 19, 2015 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Then again, there was a time when heroin addiction was primarily an urban phenomenon, and that didn’t last.
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There’s a big difference between “knowing” that something is a disease, and actually treating it as one.
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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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