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The Pill Pusher’s Tale

by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 10, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |

Smaller government is not always better government. It shouldn't take a major health crisis to remind us.

Maradona’s Last Chance?

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 23, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
Medical Relapse Trap

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 11, 2020 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Opioid Evangelism

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 29, 2018 | Prevention, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
In the News: Pain Pill Busts

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 19, 2018 | In the News | 0 |
The Pain Patients’ Dilemma

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 18, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 1 |

In the News: Update on Prince

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 30, 2018 | In the News | 2 |

The real solution would have been for Prince to have received treatment for his drug problem, which by this time was a far bigger issue than his somatic pain.

Myth or Not?

by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 19, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |

Too many doctors worry about “those people” showing up in the waiting room. They don’t particularly want to be known as a resource for the addicted.

Opioid Vulnerability

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 5, 2017 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |

There’s no blood test, no scan to aid diagnosis. Knowing intellectually that one in ten will succumb is very little help; it has no practical value in terms of predicting an individual outcome.

Getting Drugs From Docs Part Three: Prevention

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 7, 2017 | Addiction Clinicians, Prevention | 1 |

Try thinking of the interaction between drug seeker and practitioner as type of negotiation where the two parties have very different goals.

Getting Drugs From Docs Part Two: The Targets

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 31, 2017 | Prevention | 0 |

There are just too many different forms of manipulation for any of us to be uniformly good at identifying them on the fly.

Getting Drugs From Docs Part One: The Manipulators

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 24, 2017 | Prevention | 0 |

One sign of vulnerability: the place tended to be too busy or too slow.

Doctors in Denial

by C. Scott McMillin | May 4, 2017 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |

Here was a physician who regularly committed an assortment of crimes without considering himself a criminal. To his way of thinking, he was the victim.