Tag: alcohol
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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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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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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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Let’s Not Raise a Glass So Fast…to Alcohol
Alcohol is dangerous and deadly. It’s the most dangerous legal drug, and it’s the second-most deadly legal drug. Given this information, I am BEGGING for someone to explain to me how society has become so inured to the dangers of alcohol that we completely ignore them. Case in point: I watched the sixth season of…
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Umbilical Cord Tissue: Faster Answers; Better Outcomes
Umbilical Cord Tissue: Faster Answers; Better Outcomes My last blog was all about screening neonates for substances of abuse and why we don’t screen often enough. I didn’t answer that question – because I don’t understand why we don’t, but you can read the blog here: https://the4csofaddiction.wordpress.com/2023/12/01/knowledge-is-power-and-more-is-readily-available-through-neonate-screening-for-drugs-of-abuse/ Now, let’s say we learned our lesson, and…
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Knowledge Is Power, and More Is Readily Available through Neonate Screening for Drugs of Abuse
Every single baby born in the US is required to be screened for phenylketonuria (PKU), which is “a rare condition in which a baby is born without the ability to properly break down an amino acid called phenylalanine” (Medline). Annually in the US, 1 in every 10,000 to 15,000 babies born is diagnosed with PKU…
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