Doctors and Alcohol Disorders
Definite progress has been made, but there are still plenty of examples of people who fall through the cracks in the healthcare system.
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A Simple(?) Case of Drunk Driving…
Many hospitals are notoriously lax about testing, and if you really are injured, who can blame them?
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Heavy Drinking vs Alcoholism
It isn’t nature vs. nurture. It’s both.
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First Person: A Change Has Come
Eventually their iron control failed and problems re-emerged, usually far worse than before.
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Distorting Reality
I don’t know how many times over the years I’ve listened to family members cite evidence of a loved one’s alcohol problem only to hear many of the same events cited by the drinker to prove that he doesn’t.
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The Defiant Ones
Daily life becomes a battle zone; the more folks press for change, the more the drinker retreats into isolation, aided by the bottle.
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Glamour Grotesque
It’s always been fun for the public to speculate on what drove someone to literally disappear inside the bottle.
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David Crosby’s Genes
Besides, it’s probably a vulnerability to addiction that’s in the genes, rather than the disease itself, and that crosses generations.
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Is Cannabis Essential, Like Milk and Eggs?
Makes me wonder about the widespread practice of prescribing medical marijuana for mental health conditions such as PTSD.
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Well-Defended
It’s just our old friend motivated reasoning at work– our inclination to favor arguments that support what we want to believe over evidence to the contrary.
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First Person Hard Charger
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
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Different Disorders?
Many of the differences in the experience of alcohol and heroin addiction are due to their respective status in the eyes of the law.
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