A Bad Mistake
Problem: even if society passes good laws to regulate sales, how can we enforce them?
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 18, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Problem: even if society passes good laws to regulate sales, how can we enforce them?
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 20, 2024 | Families | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 17, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 9, 2024 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 18, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 8, 2024 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 2, 2023 | Public Health | 0 |
CDC claims that 1 in 5 drug overdoses in 2020 – or 20% — involved people in those two sectors alone. Something to think about.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 26, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
This in spite of the fact … that these drugs can and often do interact harmfully with one another. And regular users are at elevated risk for misuse, abuse, dependence, and/or addiction.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
The President went on to insist that Mexican-made fentanyl pills only came in blue–
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 10, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
…since xylazine isn’t itself an opioid, the antagonist naloxone won’t reverse its effects. Even with prompt treatment, the user can still experience respiratory arrest.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
I think poisoned Halloween candy would be extremely unlikely but potentially devastating to whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 28, 2019 | In the News | 0 |
Some people are surprised that someone could function at such a high level in public despite significant drug use, but that’s something addiction has been known for.
Read Moreby 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.
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