In the News

It’s great for headlines but I hope we don’t dance too far down that particular garden path.

…if this type of strategy didn’t succeed 30 years ago, what makes us think it’ll be a success this time around?

It’s the result of a problem in medicine that’s been going on since before I ever started working in the field. The drugs have changed, but the results haven’t.

Addictions are complex. Considering the various risk factors, it’s likely that marijuana will appear to act as a gateway to harder drugs for some users, but not others.

In this most recent example, the funds aren’t there. No new money attached.

When he speaks, he reminds me of others I’ve known who come from families that fought and lost a battle with addictive disease.

You can’t characterize dead children as collateral damage and not expect it to come back on you later.

He compares the patients he treats, who are often homeless, to “outcasts” and ‘lepers”, who have been “derided, despised, and marginalized.”

That’s why I’d welcome more research into the tapering process, with an eye to improving success rates.

Then word hits the street of a new product that can make you feel almost like your first time… No wonder they come running. And some never wake up.