Author: GuidaBrown
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Alcohol: The Deadliest Drug
Alcohol is STILL killing more people annually than opioids ever did….alcohol kills slowly. Heroin kills fast. Fentanyl kills faster. Opioids can and do kill with a first use, but alcohol rarely does. Alcohol takes its sweet time…first destroying relationships, then entire families, and then actual lives.
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What Is Recovery?
Can a person be in remission or recovery while ceasing “heavy” drinking or use only?
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Silos Help No One
When NARCAN first started being supplied due to grant dollars, there was a lot of pushback about it. “Why should insulin be so expensive and NARCAN be free?” The truth is that NARCAN isn’t free; it’s paid for by our tax dollars, so that question should be “Why do we provide NARCAN but not insulin…
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Can’t We All Just Agree on “Drugs”?
A drug is a substance that changes a person’s mental or physical state, so given that definition, alcohol is a drug, period. It’s a drug; it’s a drug; it’s a drug, no matter what anyone wants to believe. Just because it’s legal and just because there’s a humongous lobbying effort throwing a boatload of money…
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Would Your Baby Pass The Test?
The number one cause of pregnancy-related deaths in the US is mental health conditions, which includes overdose and poisoning related to substance use disorders.
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Ask and It Shall Be Answered…
Imagine the death rates if we simply asked those who suffer from the more-recognized diseases [than addiction] how their diseases are being managed.
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That Deadly Drink
Just because it’s legal – and just because the government sold us out to the deep pockets of the alcohol industry – doesn’t mean that it’s safe.
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FASDs in Corrections: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Determining whether someone has a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – which in itself is not diagnosable – has proven to be difficult, at best. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, or FASDs, is the umbrella term describing the range of adverse effects that can occur in an individual due to prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). The diagnoses, per…
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Meet the New Drugs…Just Like the Old Drugs…
So with all these “new” drugs on the market that people are misusing, testing, as in direct biomarkers using fingernails, is the only way to know what’s being used.
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