Tag: treatment
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Ending Addiction: Strategies for Effective Treatment and Recovery
Would you want to go to an endocrinologist for treatment of your type 2 diabetes if ze were obese and has type 2 diabetes? Do you get your hair cut by someone with a hairstyle you don’t like? Why do we have a current emphasis on people who use drugs (PWUD) to be part of…
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Research on Addiction Needs Added Oversight
Learning is good, but accepting all research as gospel is problematic, and the alternative — dismissing facts we don’t agree with — is equally harmful. Despite my sister saying I’m basically a one-trick pony, I’m passionate about a lot of topics, so I love knowing stuff and sharing it. That’s why I enjoy attending conferences…because…
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Understanding Addiction: Insights from Ask Eric
I am a huge fan of “Ask Eric,” which my daily newspaper runs every day. For the uninitiated, “Ask Eric” is the latest generation of “Dear Abby” or “Ask Ann Landers.” Ann Landers was really Esther “Eppie” Lederer, and Dear Abby was her twin sister Pauline “Popo” Phillips. I don’t like taking advice from anyone…
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Is ‘California Sober’ a Real Path to Recovery?
There’s much debate about what recovery looks like. In fact, in some fun videos on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mikeandguida/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MikeAndGuida) that I do with my friend, the renowned trainer Mike McGowan, we recently talked about “California Sober,” and sheesh, did we get pushback! For the unfamiliar, “California Sober,” according to one source, means “when a…
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Understanding Testing Treatment Options for Addiction
I recently spent some time at Mayo Clinic. If you’re from the Midwest, this needs no explanation. For those of you who aren’t from the Midwest, I actually don’t know how to explain it well because it is surreal. I grew up knowing that Mayo is where you go when you’re really sick. When I…
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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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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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I’m Not Responsible for My Addiction — Or AM I?
Addiction is a disease just like heart disease is a disease. Both these diseases are preventable. Addiction is preventable through education and lack of use. Heart disease is preventable through following a healthy diet, exercising regularly, and not smoking. And both these diseases still occur – a lot – despite their both being preventable. So…
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Getting Us Out of This Mess
Because of what I listened to from the first 2024 Republican Presidential primary debate, I Googled “How is fentanyl coming to the US?” And here’s what I found from the January 2020 DEA Intelligence Report: “The flow of fentanyl into the United States in 2019 is more diverse compared to the start of the fentanyl crisis…
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Testing for Truth
A recent edition of the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse reports that of the 1,300+ children, aged 9 to 13, surveyed, 9% more tested positive using hair testing for substance use than the 10% who self-reported use. Wait, now… The report indicates that 5% of 8th graders — children aged 13-14 — are reporting cannabis use…
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