Addictive Substances

There’s long been evidence of a reciprocal relationship between cocaine and heroin use.

…cannabis is “likely to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia, social anxiety disorders and, to a lesser extent, depression.”

Problems show up first in hospital emergency rooms and in jails. Those are the closest thing we have to an early warning system.

Medicare spending on compounded topical drugs has surged 3400% since 2006.

Like the film where Amy Shumer chugs boxed wine, and inadvertently drives up sales to admiring fans.

This isn’t a problem a physician can deal with comfortably in the context of a 12-15 minute office visit.

Naloxone is there to prevent someone from injecting Suboxone to get high.

Helps to think of an electronic cigarette as just another drug delivery device, along the lines of a high-tech crack pipe, capable of carrying a number of different substances to the brain.

Does his use of pot reduce his craving for alcohol (as he claims), or is it actually helping to trigger his drinking?

“I probably would have taken them anyway. I was really hoping for a chemical fix.”