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Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
This appeared in a recent issue of Medscape --
Total Abstinence Not the Only Treatment Goal in SUD
According to the expert quoted, a proposed shift away from abstinence as a treatment goal “…may open opportunities for medication development that can help individuals achieve these improved outcomes, even if complete abstinence is not immediately achievable or wanted."
I grant you, that’s a huge audience: persons with alcohol or drug problems who would prefer not to have to give up drinking and drug use, if at all possible.
Almost everybody who develops an addiction of any severity falls into that category at one point or another. I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or, in a couple of cases, most of a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
Folks in the Twelve Step fellowships know that if there had been an alternative to sobriety, an ‘easier, softer...
Total Abstinence Not the Only Treatment Goal in SUD
According to the expert quoted, a proposed shift away from abstinence as a treatment goal “…may open opportunities for medication development that can help individuals achieve these improved outcomes, even if complete abstinence is not immediately achievable or wanted."
I grant you, that’s a huge audience: persons with alcohol or drug problems who would prefer not to have to give up drinking and drug use, if at all possible.
Almost everybody who develops an addiction of any severity falls into that category at one point or another. I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or, in a couple of cases, most of a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
Folks in the Twelve Step fellowships know that if there had been an alternative to sobriety, an ‘easier, softer...
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More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
The Bill Comes Due
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
The Power of Drug Company Marketing
...a number of years ago, the Institute of Medicine set forth guidelines intended to reduce the influence of advertising on how physicians prescribed medications... to date, relatively few physicians have actually adopted those guidelines.
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What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
What Is It About Abstinence?
I’ve watched perfectly intelligent individuals devote months or years or even a lifetime to attempts at a solution other than the obvious one – abstinence from the substances that plague them.
Pink Cocaine, it isn’t
When I've seen people attempt to explain their motives, they usually blame it on the trust they had in their source -- whoever gave or sold it to them at the time. That trust was misplaced, they complain.
An Interesting Case From Virginia
If I had to recommend something, it would be for schools and parents to grab onto those evidence-based approaches and make them integral to your school culture.
A Success, but with Complications
But if he feels he needs the medication to function normally, I see no reason for the rest of us to object. I mean, we don't want to disincentivize someone's recovery, do we?
Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
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Exercising for Chronic Pain Relief
We've known for several decades that regular exercise, even the mild sort, helps lessen symptoms of depression. It comes as no surprise that it may also help with CPS and the mood problems that accompany it.
Borderline, Revisited
The term was invented in the 1930’s to describe someone prone to becoming psychotic or severely disturbed under stress, but who otherwise was capable of functioning normally.
Self-Diagnosis
Most of the time, there’s an extended period in which the drinker is engaged in something called ‘comparing out’. That's when they're focused on what isn't wrong with their drinking, and ignoring or minimizing what is.
Exercising for Chronic Pain Relief
We've known for several decades that regular exercise, even the mild sort, helps lessen symptoms of depression. It comes as no surprise that it may also help with CPS and the mood problems that accompany it.
Drugs in Jail
If 70% or more of a jail population has been identified as having a drug or alcohol problem – that does happen – then what you’re really operating is a treatment center that happens to have bars on the windows and guards at the entrance.
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First Person Hard Charger
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
First Person Hard Charger
In fact, in many instances, the trauma that occurs after they’re addicted is more damaging than what happened before.
Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they've always created problems for a percentage of users.
