Thinking About Addiction

It’s easy to take too much. When that happens, a coma may result. After waking, it’s common to have suffered memory loss.

Drug dealers at the higher levels of the marketplace are much like other businesspeople in their natural aversion to bad publicity.

We will have to deal with electronic smoking, which has exploded among young people even as cigarette use has declined.

We should remember that Ohio’s Republican governor had to go against the wishes of many in his own party in order to achieve this.

Not Latin American cartels or Afghan warlords, but advocates for opioid treatment of chronic pain, and pharmaceutical firms with a substantial financial interest in selling opioids.

Still, if the epidemic is already 28 years old, then how much more effective would these steps have been if they had been initiated way back when?

It’s these outdated attitudes towards addictions that enable the healthcare professional to ignore important information provided by the patient. 

Traditional middle class jobs with career prospects replaced by a lower-paid, less stable workforce– perhaps more vulnerable to outside influence?

…if the ground is now shifting to other drugs, then what are we doing in response to that?

Think physician practices and pharmacies and specialty clinics who began with a lucrative sideline that may now be their main source of revenue.