Tag: urine
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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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Where’s the Rx?
Over the last few days I’ve been confronted – again – with the realization that far too many people don’t believe addiction is a disease, no matter what they actually say about it. First, the municipality where I live, one where no cannabis use is legal, decided to drop the first possession ticket to a…
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We Can’t Incarcerate Nor IGNORE Our Way Out
To be clear, addiction is a chronic, progressive, lethal brain disease. We don’t criminalize other diseases by virtue of having the disease. That is, if someone with type 2 diabetes is under supervision through the criminal justice system for a crime, he doesn’t get sanctioned for having a diabetic episode – because society recognizes that…
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Give This a Listen!
It is common practice for medical professionals to run tests to determine the cause and severity of a patient’s condition. Guida Brown talks about why that should also be the case when it comes to persons with Substance Use Disorders. Guida is a Community Relations Consultant with United States Drug Testing Laboratories. She is also…
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You Can’t Fail This Test
“How’d you do on the English test?” “I failed it.” “How’d you do on that glucose test?” “Yeah…I failed that one, too.” Testing is used to assess and monitor progression of disease and to thereby monitor recovery, just as with cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Doctors order a multitude of tests to determine what sort…
Guided by Guida 