Can “Smart” Drugs Make Us Dumber?
Stimulants do tend to boost the individual's self-confidence, at least temporarily. Cocaine and methamphetamine are known for it. It often escalates to grandiosity.
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Safer Supply?
…it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted– for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
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Drug ODs in decline at last?
A logical starting place for a community concerned about drug use would be with data collected by their own health departments and criminal justice agencies, with the aim of funding and implementing a continuum of services that reflects the actual (and likely future) needs of their own citizens.
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Warning Labels on Liquor — Worth the Effort?
Of course, we should expect significant opposition from the alcohol industry.
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Some Downward Progress
Many older folks turn to cannabis to self-medicate the pain and sleep problems that can plague old age. As they become dependent on cannabis, we could see the emergence of more health-related problems there.
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Odds & Ends from Research
And according to the researchers, (SGB) seems to have a positive impact on other problems that co-occur with PTSD– anxiety, depression, alcohol consumption.
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A Change in Attitudes?
With pot shops on nearly every corner and pot users more common than ever, we’re seeing the consequences of what one expert called America’s ‘remarkably naive’ approach.
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The Risk Factor
Ironically, the same research indicates that those opioids chronic pain patients depended on weren’t really doing much for their pain.
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Good News on the Overdose Front
Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.
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At last a treatment for meth?
I’m curious as to whether the reductions in meth use could be expected to lead to eventual abstinence where meth was concerned. That’s been the hope for other maintenance treatments, for the most part unrealized.
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A Breakthrough in Depression Treatment?
In the past, the task of selecting the right treatment for a depressed patient has been more than a little hit or miss, involving a certain amount of trial and error.
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Psychosis in the Age of Pot…
Compared with no cannabis use, cannabis use was significantly associated with an 11-fold increased risk for psychotic disorders during adolescence…
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