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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.

It usually comes back to the assumption that another problem ‘underlies’ addiction, and therefore will respond to treatment with the “right” drug, if we can figure out what it is.

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.

Might be that clinicians can teach patients to activate their own body’s placebo response, in order to feel better.

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

I’ve never had much success explaining to a patient in the first 30 days of recovery that when Bobby smokes dope, it’s medicine, but when Liz lights up, it’s drug abuse.

I’ve come to view it more as a tool for harm reduction than a path to long term recovery, with some notable exceptions.