Tag: addiction
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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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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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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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Addiction Happens to All of Us
Addiction is that thing that no one cares about…until it happens to you or your loved one. But these days, nearly everyone has someone whom it’s happened to. When I first started in the field of addiction back in the late ’80s, the statistic was that a quarter of individuals were affected by a loved…
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Who’s Zooming Who?
As of September 20, SAMHSA is reporting that, “For substance use specifically, of the 29.0 million adults who perceived that they ever had a substance use problem, 72.2% (or 20.9 million) considered themselves to be in recovery or to have recovered from their drug or alcohol use problem” (samhsa). As you know, if you’ve read…
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The Ketamine Kure Or “Here We Go Again!”
Just as opioids weren’t a cure all, ketamine isn’t a cure all. In 2019, s-ketamine was approved for treatment-resistant depression (FDA)…and a huge warning flag should have been flown. Ketamine had already been approved in 1970, but that was for its original use for humans: an anesthetic. And in its original form it has already…
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Flushing Out the Lies
I count people’s drinks. I don’t mean to do it, and I’m not proud of it, but I imagine it’s a learned behavior. I grew up with addiction around me, and believing that people would adhere to the limits they set for themselves was difficult, at best. So I started counting drinks, and I’ve never…
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