Thinking About Addiction

I can imagine a hundred scenarios in which Dsuvia somehow leaves the battlefield and finds it way into the world of drug abuse.

The increased incidence of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric symptoms linked to OUD may also help to account for high rates of relapse among patients, post-treatment, versus other substance disorders.

When businesses are failing, they’ll try anything to earn back some of their investment.

One of the key ingredients for a drug epidemic is a false sense of confidence in the safety of drug use.

These are questions that come up with every drug, not just cannabis. And unanswered, they can lead to problems down the road.

We focus on the drug, as if someone who uses heroin, for instance, can’t also have a problem with alcohol, or sleeping pills, or methamphetamine, or this new, more potent form of marijuana that’s showing up everywhere.

Now, with the introduction of fentanyl and carfentanil, the decision to inject heroin or cocaine can easily result in a fatality.

They say they’d rather have other industries, but candidates are scarce. So they bet on cannabis.

It’s still just nicotine, after all, even if someone doctored it to smell like creme brulee.

Then there are the users who seek to overcome their own elevated tolerance, which interferes with ordinary drug-taking, by simultaneously consuming a second substance of the same general effect