Category: Misuse

  • Weed in the NBA

    Big news before 4/20 was that the new NBA collective-bargaining contract will not require testing for THC. This new contract comes on the heels of the NBA having temporarily suspended testing of THC over the last three seasons, in part as a response to the COVID pandemic. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has gone on record…

  • My Friend Michael Is Dying

    To be honest, I’m not even sure what he’s dying from, which makes helping him that much more difficult. It may be cancer, or it may be that his disease of addiction has finally sped up his demise…from cirrhosis or whatever else a body does when it’s had enough. And, given the fragmented systems of…

  • Gabapentin: A New Way to Die

    In 2012, at the height of the opioid epidemic in this country, the US had 95% of the hydrocodone prescriptions in the world, despite having only 5% of the world’s population. The shocking fact that was thrown around was that “health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid pain medication, enough for every adult…