A Bewildering Mix
As many as fifty of these NPS designer drugs have been found to date. That sounds like a lot until we realize the potential for hundreds more to appear in future.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 31, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
As many as fifty of these NPS designer drugs have been found to date. That sounds like a lot until we realize the potential for hundreds more to appear in future.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 26, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 10, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 28, 2019 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 3, 2019 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
The best answer is the one we came up with to explain the selectivity of alcoholism: Differences in individual susceptibility.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 24, 2018 | People in Recovery | 0 |
For most of us, personal risk management boils down to inserting a process of logical reasoning between the desire and the action.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 14, 2017 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |
It’s also not too difficult to create a ‘homemade’ variety using raw ingredients purchased on the dark web and a common pill press.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 19, 2017 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Problems show up first in hospital emergency rooms and in jails. Those are the closest thing we have to an early warning system.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 28, 2016 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Helps to think of an electronic cigarette as just another drug delivery device, along the lines of a high-tech crack pipe, capable of carrying a number of different substances to the brain.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 21, 2016 | Addiction, Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
The flaw in this very late-stage view of addiction… is the suggestion that somehow, addiction is the patient’s fault. Avoidable if the patient simply followed directions.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 8, 2016 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
I never saw much difference between a lawyer or a doctor bitching about his job in group, and the same behavior from a CPA or a techie or a long-distance trucker.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 27, 2015 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
It may alter the nature of society’s challenges, and move them to other sectors of the economy, but I expect we’ll continue to have difficulties.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 2, 2015 | Addiction Clinicians, Thinking About Addiction | 2 |
To a seasoned counselor, there’s another way to view it. For one thing, these aren’t isolated incidents.
Read Moreby Cecile | Mar 30, 2012 | Prevention, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
This is the first data-driven study which shows that teacher support is associated with lower levels of early alcohol use.
Read Moreby Cecile | Mar 29, 2012 | Families, Prevention, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
For these and other common procedures referred to in the study, we might not even know what the doctor prescribes Mom or Dad afterward.
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