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Demand and Supply
Picture a horde of lemmings suddenly deciding to change direction and stampede off a different cliff.
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: opioids
Prohibition Paradox
Alcohol still gets credit for close to 90,000 deaths every year– more than other drugs, even in the middle of an epidemic.
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: alcohol
Word of Warning
Cannabis doesn’t replace opioids the way methadone or buprenorphine do. There’s no antagonist effect as with naloxone or naltrexone.
Category: Public Health, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: cannabis, mortality, opioids
About Saying “No”
You may have unintentionally established a pattern of saying things you didn’t really mean, or making promises you didn’t keep, or threatening consequences that never came to pass.
Category: Families, How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (families) | Tags: boundaries, communication, enabling and provoking
Stimulants Today
The list of deaths from the practice is long and oddly prestigious, featuring celebs such as John Belushi and Chris Farley, among many others.
Category: Addictive Substances, Public Health, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: epidemiology, mortality, stimulants
Microdosers
If the dose is in fact subtherapeutic, then what causes the effects so enthusiastically reported by the user?
Category: Addiction Clinicians, Addictive Substances, How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (clinicians) | Tags: hallucinogens
Raising the Tobacco Age Limit
So, public health advocates maintain, the McConnell plan is really just a clever ruse to reduce support for other legislation that might actually reduce smoking and vaping.
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: prevention, tobacco, vaping
In the News: Magical Mushrooms
Will society benefit from greater access to this drug? Are there potential problems we haven’t anticipated?
Category: Addictive Substances, In the News, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: hallucinogens
Proposing a Plan
This is in part a course correction from the trend of several decades ago, when the emphasis was on cutting expenses in the naive belief all addicts could be successfully treated on an outpatient basis.
Category: Prevention, Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | Tags: recovery-friendly, systems
When Shame Would Help
Clearly, these folks don’t experience shame in the way society expects. It’s why they arrive in treatment angry and defensive.
Category: Thinking About Addiction | Tags: consequences, defense mechanisms, DUI/DWI