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1 (1)

12 Step is Holistic

A (32)

“…and Let God Sort ’em Out”?
…And Now I Know the Rest of the Story!
A “Plan” Isn’t Enough
A Brief Rant About the Internet
A Heroin-ish Solution to Heroin Addiction?
A Model of Mental Illness
A New ADHD Epidemic?
A Pocket of Heroin
A Price We Can Afford
A Problem Becomes Public
A System That Could Be One
A System That Isn’t One
Aaieee!! Krokodil!
About Drinking and Smoking
About Government
Abused by Alcohol
Acid Reflux… er, Redux
Addiction and “Medicare for All”
Addiction Treatment via US Healthcare System: The Downside
Addiction Treatment: The Double Standard
Alcohol Isn’t a Health Food
Alcohol Tax Cut
America’s Drug Epidemic History
An Addiction Switch?
And the Winner Is…
Anonymity versus Celebrity
Another Day, Another Opioid Lawsuit
Another Debate, Same Subject
Another Turn of the Cycle
Another Worry for the “Sandwich Generation”
Are 12-Step Fellowships Religious?
Attorneys, Physicians, and Alcohol

B (13)

Back to Biases
Beware Lookalikes
Beyond the Barrier: Depression in Early Recovery
Big City Opioids
Big Pharma vs. Big Pot
Birth of an Epidemic
Borders and Drugs
Both Chronic, But Different: Addiction and Diabetes
Box Wars
Boxing
Breaking Up With Vaping
Building a Recovery-Friendly Community
Buyer Beware

C (28)

Can Legal Cannabis Fix Vaping Illness?
Cancer, Cannabis, and the FDA
Cannabis and Cognition
Cannabis and Mental Health
Cannabis and the Political Class
Cannabis as an Opioid Addiction Treatment
Cannabis Consequences
Cannabis Glut
Cannabis Marketing
Cannabis Next
Cannabis-Related Illness
Cannabusiness Update
CBD Oil and Its Risks
Celebrity Addiction
Celebrity Testimonials
Cheaters Do Get Caught…
Chrontact Has Been Made…
Coercion in Massachusetts
Compliance via Coercion
Compulsion Versus Control
Conflict of Interest Case Study
Controlling Cannabis
Crime vs. Disease
Crime- the Lifestyle
Cruising With Cannabis
Crystal Ball: Cannabis Use Disorder
Cycles
Cynical? Or Realistic?

D (25)

Dark Fentanyl
Dayton Gets Results
Debate About New Painkillers
Demand and Supply
Desperate Measures: Compulsive Video Gambling
Deterring Drunk Driving: Do Sanctions Work?
Deterring Drunk Driving: The Role of Treatment
Deterring Drunk Driving: Who’s Likely to Reoffend?
Deterring Drunk Driving: Thoughts on Designing a System
Disease Arguments: The Sequel, Remake, etc.
Doctors and Addiction
Doctors in Denial
Does CBD Work?
Does Vaping Help Smokers Quit?
Don’t Forget This About Drug Epidemics
Drug Epidemics, Part 1
Drug Epidemics, Part 2
Drug Prices: ‘Invisible Hands’ Off
Drug Prices: The Blame Game
Drug Testing Blues
Drugs and the Homeless
Drugstore Cowboy
Drunk Driving Debate
DSM5 – The Great Debaters
DUI: Graduating Sanctions

E (6)

F (6)

Fear of the Disease Model
Fentanyl Goes West
Fighting Pseudoscience: Critical Thinking
Florida’s Compulsory Treatment Law
Focus on Demand
Forgotten But Not Gone: Other Highs

G (3)

Ganja Glut
Genetic Marker for Alcoholism
Genetics of Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism

H (9)

I (79)

“Invisible” Hand? Or “Absent” Hand?
“It’s Baa-ack…” (Cocaine)
Ideology Wars
In Again, Out Again
In the News (again… still…): Pill Mills
In The News: 56 Recommendations and Nothing On
In the News: A Roundup
In the News: A Truly Costly Epidemic
In the News: Adderall Angst
In the News: Anatomy of a Scam
In the News: Big Pharma’s Addiction Profits
In the News: Blue Light Special
In the News: Border Walls?
In the News: Bupe Implants
In the News: Care about CARA
In the News: Death Penalty
In the News: Disasters and Opioid Treatment
In the News: Do Safe Injection Sites Work?
In the News: Drug Epidemics and Confusing the Issues
In the News: Drug War Ceasefire?
In the News: Drug War Reboot?
In the News: DUI, Cannabis-Style
In the News: Epidemic Update
In the News: Fading Flakka
In the News: Fentanyl Epidemic
In the News: Flying High in Silicon Valley
In the News: Going Postal
In the News: Harm Reduction in West Virginia
In the News: Heroin Deaths Surpass Gun-Related Deaths
In the News: Hitler’s Heroin
In the News: K2 in New Haven
In the News: Kaos Around Kratom
In the News: Keeping It Covered
In the News: Kratom
In the News: Lobbying for Meth Cooks
In the News: Magical Mushrooms
In the News: Medicaid Work Requirements
In the News: Medical Cannabis in PA
In the News: Medical vs. Recreational Cannabis
In the News: Merchant Princes
In the News: Notes from the Epidemic
In the News: Opioid Addiction and the Private Sector
In the News: Opioid Addiction Vaccine?
In the News: Opioid Epidemic “Fixes” vs. Strategy
In the News: Opioid Prescriptions Drop
In the News: Opioid Windfall
In the News: Opioids versus Other Options
In the News: Pain Pill Busts
In the News: Painkiller Control
In the News: Polypharmacy and Tom Petty
In the News: Pot in Pueblo
In the News: Prince’s Pain
In the News: Prince’s Pills
In the News: Purdue Knew
In the News: Return of the Gateway Theory
In the News: Russian Drinking
In the News: Sex Addiction Again…
In the News: Spit in the Ocean
In the News: Stoned Driving
In the News: The “Affluenza” Case
In the News: The End of a Pill Mill
In the News: The FDA in Action?
In the News: The Fentanyl Factor
In the News: The Human Element
In the News: The Kratom Debate
In the News: The Opioid Commission Speaks
In the News: Update on Prince
In the News: Updates From the Epidemics
In the News: Video Gambling
In the News: Who Gets Narcan?
Interdiction Two-Step
Intervention at the ER, Part 2
Intervention at the ER? Can it Work?
Is Cannabis Addictive?
Is GHB Next?
Is LSD Going to Cure Alcoholism?
Is Relapse a Crime?
Is there an “alcoholic/addictive” personality?
It’s Time to Retire “Behavioral Health”

J (1)

Josh Hamilton and Confidentiality Laws

K (1)

Ketamine Comeback

L (5)

M (20)

Medical Cannabis
Medical Cannabis Laws and Addiction
Medical Cannabis: A Review
Medical Cannabis: Research Update
Medicalizing Cannabis
Medication Assisted Treatment
Mental Health and Gun Violence
Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
Meth Making a Comeback
Methadone for Chronic Pain?
Methadone Maintenance and Crime
Miracle Max
Mission Not Accomplished
Modern Medicine(s)
More on Lobbying
More on Medicaid Requirements
More on Mental Illness: Genetics
More Politics of Pot
Movies About Alcoholism
Myth or Not?

N (10)

Naloxone Fatigue
Naltrexone versus Opioids
NarCan’t?
Nature vs. Nurture Again
Needle Exchange Backlash
New Approaches for Chronic Pain
New CDC Guidelines for Opioid Prescription
New Club Drugs
No, It Wasn’t the Pain
Notes From the Epidemic

O (22)

Oh– as for Fentanyl…
Oliver on Opioids
On the Fentanyl Front…
Open the Buprenorphine Tap?
Opening the Pipeline: ADHD
Opioid Alternatives
Opioid Disorders and Depression
Opioid Epidemic Budget Exercise
Opioid Evangelism
Opioid Maintenance: Life Sentence?
Opioid Prescribing in an Opioid Epidemic
Opioid Prescription Laws
Opioid Settlements?
Opioid Vulnerability
Opioids and Mental Health Diagnoses
Opioids and the Assumption of Failure
Opioids for Pain Relief? It Depends…
Opioids in Cars
Opioids in India
Opioids in International Relations
Outpatient Follies
Overdose Fatality Trends

P (32)

Pain Conundrum
Pain Pill Cycle
Pain Psychology
Pain Treatment for Those Battling Opioid Dependence
Pain: Sensation or Emotion?
Painkillers, from Two Sides
Perp or Victim?
Persuasion in Prevention
Pharmaceutical “Cures”
Pharmacology to the Rescue?
Philosopher’s Stone
Pills by Default
Pills, Pills, and More Pills
Political Cover
Politics and Drugs
Politics and Pharmacy
Politics, Money, and Addiction Treatment
Polypharmacy Overdose
Pot and the NFL Draft
Pot Potency
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt 1
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt. 2
Pressure Points
Preventing Adolescent Cannabis Abuse
Prison as a Strategy
Proactive is the Key
Profound Influence
Prohibition Paradox
Proposing a Plan
Psychedelia
Psychonautics
Putting Off Reality

R (14)

“Research Says…”
‘Responsible’ Dabbing?
Raising the Tobacco Age Limit
Reducing Opioid Prescriptions
Relapse After Longterm Sobriety
Relapse and Addiction Policy
Requisition for an Alcoholism Cure
Research Blues: Correlation versus Causation
Responding to an Epidemic: Narcan
Restorative Justice for Big Pharma?
Revisiting the Politics of Painkillers
Revolving Cell Doors
Risky Decision Case Study: Quarterback Derby
Rogue Pharmacies

S (22)

“Stay Tuned”
Scheduling Drugs
Science vs. Science
Secondhand Drinking
Secretary for Drug Crises?
Self-Induced Mindset
Selling Pills
Should the U.S. Legalize Drugs?
Skunked
Smoking Addiction
Snake Oil
Social Drinking? Problem Drinking?
Solid at the Core
Spontaneous Remission?
Stemming the Tide: Vaping
Stigma Behind the Stethoscope
Stigma in the Bigger Picture
Stimulants Today
Stoned Voter Effect?
Strange Bedfellows in the Pharma Lobby
Striking a Cannabis Balance
Synergism Strikes

T (63)

“The Real Reasons”?
“The War On…”
“The Wire” and Children of Addiction
Teachers Reduce Addiction Risk!
Teens: Cannabis and Vaping Up; Cigarettes Down
The “Party School” Problem
The “Rules” About Drugs
The 12-Step Success Rate
The Ad Biz
The Blame Game
The Business of Cures
The Cannabis Cure?
The Cannabis Debate
The Captagon Craze in the Middle East
The Challenge of the Repeat Offense Drunk Driver
The Disease Debate
The Drugs/Crime Axis
The EBP Conundrum
The Empire Strikes Back
The Epidemic Rolls On…
The Exact Wrong Thing
The FDA and Pediatric Oxycontin
The Five Percent Meme
The Grief Exception
The Labels We Use
The Last Dose
The Maintenance Biz
The Malibu Mindset
The March of Pseudoscience
The Miracle Herb
The More Things Change…
The New Herbalists
The New Moralists
The Next Epidemic: CUD
The NFL’s Incentive to Addiction
The NIH, Corporate Sponsors, and Research
The OD Epidemic Continues…
The Pain Patient Population
The Pain Patients’ Dilemma
The Pill Mill Shell Game
The Politics of Painkillers
The Pot Docs
The Pot Wars Continue
The Public Trust
The Quick Change Artists
The Rumor Mill: “Killer Rehab”?
The Search for Better Pain Remedies
The Study of Pain
The Vape Ban That Wasn’t
The Vaping Dilemma
The Wave Phenomenon
Theory
There’s a Dead Skunk Under Your State…
Three Basic Questions
To Maintain or Not to Maintain?
Tossing the Playbook
Tragic and Costly: DUI/DWI
Treating Young Opioid Users: Residential vs. Outpatient?
Treatment and Coercion
Trends in Cannabis Consumption
Tricky Opioid Payouts
Truth Comes Out
Two Perspectives on Pain

U (2)

V (4)

W (17)

“Weak” Evidence for Prescription Opioid Effectiveness
Walls and Fences
War For Drugs
Weird Science
What IS a “Recovery-Friendly” Community?
When Alcohol Pays for Research
When It’s Just Business
When Shame Would Help
Who’s Looking Out for You?
Who’s to Blame?
Why No Opioid Taper?
Why We Can’t Trust the Healthcare System to Regulate Itself
Why We Don’t Learn From Experience
Why Zero Tolerance Fails
Women and Men: Different Experiences of Recovery
Word of Warning
Worldwide Epidemic

X (1)

XR-Naltrexone: Too Expensive to Help?

Y (2)

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