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A Bewildering Mix

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.

A Disturbing Trend in Prescribing

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 26, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
What color is your fentanyl?

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 13, 2023 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
Tranq’in

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 10, 2023 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Chasing the Rainbow (Fentanyl)

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 10, 2022 | In the News | 0 |
Truth Comes Out

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 28, 2019 | In the News | 0 |

Is Cannabis Addictive?

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.

Landing On Your Feet

by 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.

Beware Lookalikes

by 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.

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.

Cannabis-Related Illness

by 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.

Vagaries of Vaping

by 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.

Expert Nonsense

by 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.

Attorneys, Physicians, and Alcohol

by 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.