Search for “early recovery” — 251 results
Perp or Victim?
We can’t be too surprised at the extraordinary lengths that owners and CEOs will go to hang onto those profits.
Category: Thinking About Addiction | Tags: models of addiction, opioids
Ending an Epidemic?
It’s as if we can’t conceive of life without drowning ourselves in abusable substances.
Category: Public Health, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: epidemiology, opioids
Communicating With Your Recovering Loved One
It is not always about having the right words to say, but asking the right questions and giving the space to answer with vulnerability.
Category: Families, How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (families) | Tags: communication, promoting recovery
LSD in the UK
I recall several cases admitted to the inpatient psych ward at one hospital where I worked in Boston, usually with severe psychotic symptoms.
Category: Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: hallucinogens
Ganja Glut
When businesses are failing, they’ll try anything to earn back some of their investment.
Category: Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: cannabis
Cannabis Consequences
One of the key ingredients for a drug epidemic is a false sense of confidence in the safety of drug use.
Category: Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: cannabis, consequences
Does CBD Work?
These are questions that come up with every drug, not just cannabis. And unanswered, they can lead to problems down the road.
Category: Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: cannabis, research
Synergism Strikes
Then there are the users who seek to overcome their own elevated tolerance, which interferes with ordinary drug-taking, by simultaneously consuming a second substance of the same general effect
Category: Addictive Substances, Public Health, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: consequences, mortality, prescription medications
The Journey of the Heroic Parent
Before trying to change behavior, we would be best served to listen to what their behavior is trying to teach us.
Category: Bookshelf | Tags: book plug, parent child conflict
Proactive is the Key
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.
Category: Prevention, Public Policy, Thinking About Addiction | Tags: epidemiology, opioids