About those prescribed stimulants…
...new data suggest that even those who think they are using their stimulant medications as directed may be at risk of substance use disorder
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Predicting CUD’s Impact on Treatment
…it’s more likely to be those with five or six or more symptoms — the “high-moderate” to severe cases, in DSM parlance – who eventually seek treatment.
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Collegiate “Drunking”
In that environment, alcohol abuse, no matter how excessive, was somehow acceptable. Normalized is the word for it.
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CUD — How Severe is Severe?
Of course, even when someone else sees CUD is advanced, it can take quite a while for the user to realize how bad things are.
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A Parable of Addiction from Deep Space
What interested me was that this episode was first broadcast in 1988 – around the beginning of the prescription opioid epidemic.
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Self-Diagnosis
Most of the time, there’s an extended period in which the drinker is engaged in something called ‘comparing out’. That’s when they’re focused on what isn’t wrong with their drinking, and ignoring or minimizing what is.
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Another Actor Talks Recovery
Maybe they just saw it as none of their damn business, so long as he showed up on time and didn’t embarrass them. It’s the sort of accommodation people make all the time in response to someone else’s excessive drinking in a social or work situation.
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Lessons Learned– Again
Hint: Just insisting that you’re not bluffing this time won’t convince that young man, or many others of his kind. He’ll need to be shown.
In an atmosphere such as this – already ‘spoiled’, we might say – any response must be carefully thought through and planned.
AA vs Some Online Resources
…the real barrier for many newcomers to AA was the fear that ultimately, they would be required to stop drinking entirely, on a permanent basis.
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Drinking Problem, or Problem with Drinking?
I’m not sure the author realizes that almost all the drinkers who wind up in addiction treatment do so after having gone through a period of questioning whether or not they deserve a label such as alcoholic.
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High Potency THC – an update
“choosing to use lower-potency cannabis products could help to make cannabis use safer and offers a sensible strategy for harm reduction.”
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Back to Blackouts
She was continually being surprised when others reported what she’d said and done during her blackouts. The memories themselves never returned.
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Curious about Sobriety
Yes, to an addiction counselor it will seem reminiscent of the control strategies employed by many folks who eventually wind up in treatment.
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