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Worldwide Epidemic
Once such substances get a foothold in a region, they’re extremely hard to eradicate.
Category: Public Health, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: drug trafficking, epidemiology, prescription medications
The Vaping Dilemma
From a seller’s viewpoint, no customer is more desirable than someone who is actually dependent on their product.
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: adolescent addiction, vaping
Opioid Settlements?
“…over the past five years, less than 10% of the nearly $40 billion in tobacco payments went towards such efforts.”
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: advocacy, opioids
Stop Thinking Like That
Nine months ago I was rummaging through your garbage for 5¢ cans. Today I am an author.
Category: Bookshelf | Tags: book plug, recovery memoir
Tapering off Anti-Depressants
In the absence of complaints, the prescriber can be tempted to assume things are going well, when in fact they aren’t.
Category: Addictive Substances, How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (clinicians) | Tags: co-occurring disorders, depression, prescription medications
Controlling Cannabis
That industry will do everything in its power to create and sustain the biggest possible population of chronic stoners.
Category: Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: cannabis, drug trafficking, prevention
The Business of Cures
I’d feel better if I knew some in our brilliant science community were working hard on ways to taper patients, if just the most highly motivated, off the medications with a reduced risk of return to heroin.
Category: Thinking About Addiction | Tags: MAT, opioids, prescription medications
Functioning on Heroin?
They qualify for the diagnosis, but have not yet experienced the sort of problems that are usually required to motivate a serious attempt to abandon drug use.
Category: Addictive Substances, How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (families) | Tags: heroin, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Selling Pills
Maybe you’ll even suggest the medication. And the marketing team wants you to leave the doctor’s office with a prescription for that med.
Category: Thinking About Addiction | Tags: drug trafficking, prescription medications
Myth or Not?
Too many doctors worry about “those people” showing up in the waiting room. They don’t particularly want to be known as a resource for the addicted.
Category: Thinking About Addiction | Tags: health care, opioids, physicians, stigma, types of treatment