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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by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 18, 2021 | In the News | 0 |
Many hospitals are notoriously lax about testing, and if you really are injured, who can blame them?
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 19, 2020 | Families | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 29, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
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by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 28, 2020 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 6, 2020 | Addiction, Families | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 30, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
It’s always been fun for the public to speculate on what drove someone to literally disappear inside the bottle.
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Besides, it’s probably a vulnerability to addiction that’s in the genes, rather than the disease itself, and that crosses generations.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 6, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Makes me wonder about the widespread practice of prescribing medical marijuana for mental health conditions such as PTSD.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 2, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 5, 2020 | Bookshelf | 0 |
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 2, 2020 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Many of the differences in the experience of alcohol and heroin addiction are due to their respective status in the eyes of the law.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 25, 2018 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
Of course, the drinker isn’t aware of having entered a blackout. Far as they’re concerned, things are proceeding as normal.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 11, 2018 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Her definition of social drinking was any alcohol consumed in the company of other human beings.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 28, 2018 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
But if a community treats a correctional institution as a kind of locked flophouse, what else we can expect?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 16, 2018 | Addictive Substances | 1 |
They qualify for the diagnosis, but have not yet experienced the sort of problems that are usually required to motivate a serious attempt to abandon drug use.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 21, 2017 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
A reasonably good rule of thumb for differentiating results of substance addiction from other illnesses: When the substance use stops for an extended period, the symptoms improve dramatically or go away entirely.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 18, 2016 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians | 1 |
Newcomers had a tendency to focus their attention on the drug that brought them to treatment, ignoring others they happened to have been using.
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