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The increased incidence of depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric symptoms linked to OUD may also help to account for high rates of relapse among patients, post-treatment, versus other substance disorders.

One of the key ingredients for a drug epidemic is a false sense of confidence in the safety of drug use.

These are questions that come up with every drug, not just cannabis. And unanswered, they can lead to problems down the road.

It’s still just nicotine, after all, even if someone doctored it to smell like creme brulee.

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

It’s easy to take too much. When that happens, a coma may result. After waking, it’s common to have suffered memory loss.

We will have to deal with electronic smoking, which has exploded among young people even as cigarette use has declined.

We should remember that Ohio’s Republican governor had to go against the wishes of many in his own party in order to achieve this.

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.

It’s these outdated attitudes towards addictions that enable the healthcare professional to ignore important information provided by the patient.