Category: addiction
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What Should Prevention Look Like?
I recently attended a presentation by the phenomenal Ira Chasnoff, MD. (You can find out more about him at NTI Upstream.) Dr. Chasnoff was doing research in the field of drug-affected neonates in the early 1990s, when I first started my career in the field of addiction. I had to wait about 30 years to…
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They’re Drunk On Your Dollars
People suffering from alcohol use disorder[…] were given alcohol – indeed, given alcohol to the level of intoxication – in the name of research.
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Addiction: The Disease Not Worthy of Intervention?
It is unconscionable for those with cancer, and it should be considered equally unconscionable for those with the other chronic, progressive, lethal disease.
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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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Test It, and You Will Know
How many people have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)? Mental illness? Substance use disorders (SUDs)? The disease of addiction? …in the US? What about in Canada? The United Kingdom? Czechoslovakia? We think we have statistics, but as everyone knows, statistics lie. As an example, think about surveying a community regarding whether or not a sports…
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