Can “Smart” Drugs Make Us Dumber?
Stimulants do tend to boost the individual's self-confidence, at least temporarily. Cocaine and methamphetamine are known for it. It often escalates to grandiosity.
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The FDA & MDMA
…we still haven’t made much progress in terms of agreeing on what qualifies as legitimate psychotherapy. Or perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t.
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Keith Humphreys on Drug Policy
Professional treatment is by definition time-limited; recovery is not. That journey doesn’t end. Peer-based support is often better able to meet future needs.
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Pink Cocaine, it isn’t
When I’ve seen people attempt to explain their motives, they usually blame it on the trust they had in their source — whoever gave or sold it to them at the time. That trust was misplaced, they complain.
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Stimulants and success in treatment
“I guess that proves that no meth is still better for you than using less meth.”
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Remember P2P? It’s here
P2P has two advantages over traditional ephedrine-based meth, from the perspective of a cartel. First, as a true synthetic, there’s no natural upper limit on how much can be produced. Second, the P2P form is extremely cheap, both to make and sell.
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About That Fourth Wave…
Extra naloxone doses were required to lift the victim out of a coma and lower the risk of respiratory arrest and death. Translation: New barriers to saving lives in the street. And more fatalities.
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Captagon revisited
Today, the making and distributing of Captagon pills accounts for 90% or more of the foreign currency in Syrian government coffers, and $57 billion in annual revenue– far beyond the scope of Mexican cartels.
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A Disturbing Trend in Prescribing
This in spite of the fact … that these drugs can and often do interact harmfully with one another. And regular users are at elevated risk for misuse, abuse, dependence, and/or addiction.
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ODs in NYC
Which brings us to the issue of Supervised Injection Sites (SIS). An outbreak such as the one in New York is the strongest argument for these centers.
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The Meth Mess – Oman coming
…one past error has been to overemphasize the more glamorous supply side interventions – interdiction and law enforcement – while paying much less attention to the demand side of the bargain.
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The Meth Mess – P2P
P2P meth seemed to accelerate the curve of meth addiction, so that the user deteriorated far more quickly than in the past. And suffered worse consequences – in particular, a kind of extreme mental toxicity
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MAT for Meth?
If Medicaid, for instance, expanded approval of naltrexone injections to include methamphetamine, that would make the combination more useful to addiction treatment.
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