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Drugstore Cowboy
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
Category: Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: consequences, legal problems, opioids, physical effects
Politics and Drugs
And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: drug trafficking, epidemiology, vaping
“Addicted”? Or “dependent”?
But it’s still confusing for many people outside the field, since unlike psychiatry, they don’t revise their thinking every couple decades.
Category: Addiction | Tags: diagnosis, physical effects, prescription medications
Skunked
There is research that links more potent cannabis, including skunk, to THC-related changes in the brain, among daily users at least.
Category: Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: addiction and the brain, cannabis, research
Bad Boards
I ask myself if this Board, as presently constituted, is capable of taking the organization to that level of success.
Category: Programs, Tips for Treatment Programs | Tags: administration, financial strategies, program development
Vaping Disease
We already know there’s a strong business link between vaping and Big Tobacco.
Category: In the News, Public Health, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: mortality, tobacco, vaping
Code of Ethics and Website Privacy
Our Code of Ethics Recovery Systems Institute, LLC (RecoverySI) is a private corporation. We hope that by providing free information and describing our services through (continued…)
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The Habit of Hiding
She had to relearn truthfulness, a day at a time, much the way the victim of a serious stroke might have to relearn speech.
Category: Addiction, How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (families) | Tags: barriers to recovery, recovery memoir
Cheaters Do Get Caught…
These multi-billion dollar fines sound enormous, but like the one levied on Facebook, they represent a small portion of the company’s actual assets.
Category: In the News, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: drug trafficking, epidemiology, opioids, prescription medications
Drugs and the Homeless
…the problems we decide not to deal with at present go on to undermine treatment for the rest.
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: co-occurring disorders, stimulants