Blogs

If the dose is in fact subtherapeutic, then what causes the effects so enthusiastically reported by the user?

The best answer is the one we came up with to explain the selectivity of alcoholism: Differences in individual susceptibility.

So, public health advocates maintain, the McConnell plan is really just a clever ruse to reduce support for other legislation that might actually reduce smoking and vaping.

Will society benefit from greater access to this drug? Are there potential problems we haven’t anticipated?

This is in part a course correction from the trend of several decades ago, when the emphasis was on cutting expenses in the naive belief all addicts could be successfully treated on an outpatient basis.

I compare it to finding someone lying on the sidewalk, helping them up, brushing them off, and pushing them down again.

There’s not a lot of disagreement about the potential for cannabis intoxication to impair driving performance, though without an accepted standard and a reliable roadside test, it’s not of much value in a courtroom.

Clearly, these folks don’t experience shame in the way society expects. It’s why they arrive in treatment angry and defensive.

We can’t be too surprised at the extraordinary lengths that owners and CEOs will go to hang onto those profits.

Research admittedly takes a long time, including the need for replication, and patients in clinical programs aren’t necessarily willing to wait.