THC, Mental Illness, & Addiction
Use of higher potency cannabis products does appear to raise the user’s risk of both Cannabis Use Disorders (CUD) and psychosis. The association was less clear for depression and anxiety.
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Is Cannabis Effective for OUD?
I wish cannabis was effective for the treatment of opioid disorders. I mean, we could use the help. But so far, it doesn’t appear to qualify.
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Is Treatment via Telehealth Effective?
I noticed early on that some clinicians appeared to acclimate to the telehealth model far more easily than other did.
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Pot for PTSD – Does It Help?
The less good news, if I can call it that, is that none of the three was found to be more effective than our old friend, placebo.
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Not Much Drinking Required
“These findings contrast with scientific and governmental guidelines on safe drinking limits.”
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Ketamine for AUD?
“How many fewer days?” was my question. Looks like about 10%.
So if the subject ordinarily drank every day, they eliminated one drinking day in ten?
TMS for alcoholism?
For me, it was encouraging to see how far science has come in its understanding of the neurological underpinnings of alcoholism.
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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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MAT for Meth?
If Medicaid, for instance, expanded approval of naltrexone injections to include methamphetamine, that would make the combination more useful to addiction treatment.
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Recovery is More Common Than We Suspect
As a bottom line, the research findings to seem to show many millions of our neighbors successfully resolving their problems with substances.
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One study went viral, the other did not
Bad intent is not required for an article or broadcast segment to qualify as potentially harmful misinformation. It only needs to be present in the most provocative way in the right forum.
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Inexplicably Drunk
Of course, clinicians who work with offenders are accustomed to the occasional client who shows up stubbornly insisting that he or she had consumed no alcohol whatsoever before arrest.
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