Protected
...the more hierarchical the workplace-- military, police and fire departments, certain bureaucracies, for instance-- the more likely it is that such behaviors will be protected.
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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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About Those Blackouts…
Of course, the drinker isn’t aware of having entered a blackout. Far as they’re concerned, things are proceeding as normal.
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Social Drinking? Problem Drinking?
Her definition of social drinking was any alcohol consumed in the company of other human beings.
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Is Relapse a Crime?
But if a community treats a correctional institution as a kind of locked flophouse, what else we can expect?
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Functioning on Heroin?
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.
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Addictive Delusions
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.
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Cross-Addiction
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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What is a Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD)?
Perhaps 20% of users will experience withdrawal– evidence of their dependence on the drug– regardless of whether they have other symptoms.
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