Revisiting CHS
As of now, there's no single widely used treatment -- other than giving up marijuana.
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Anatomy of a Mushroom
Once again based on experience, I’m confident that many of the folks who will try psilocybin in future, because of all the favorable publicity, will fall into those ‘excluded’ categories.
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Pot and Pregnancy
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.
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Ayahuasca on the Brain
When the trip ends, the writer acknowledges, the user may be “…throwing up or having trouble at the other end.”
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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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SUDs Have A Long Tail
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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First Person: A “Friends” Story
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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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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Hospital Consults — Are They Worth It?
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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Back to Blackouts
She was continually being surprised when others reported what she’d said and done during her blackouts. The memories themselves never returned.
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Getting Sober. And Not Getting Sober.
Research into long-term recovery has been prominent in the past — why not revive it?
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Second Hand Pot Smoke
…cannabis, particularly in the more potent forms that characterize contemporary use, does alter how people think and feel.
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An Unwelcome Consequence
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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