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Showing posts with label Substance abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Substance abuse. Show all posts
Monday, November 29, 2021

Meth addiction and treatment

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From Scientific American, by Claudia Wallis, April, 2021. p.21 Poor results remain all too typical for what is more formally known as metham...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Lethal drug overdoses in the year ending in April 2021 killed 100,000 people.

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  Anybody notice this? Lethal drug overdoses in the year ending in April 2021 killed 100,000 people. In my practice I know far more people w...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Do 12 Step Programs Really Work?

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Do 12 Step programs really work? From So Alcoholics Anonymous Is "Proven" to Work After All? Not So Fast by Stanton Peele on Fil...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

The problems with Benzodiazapine drugs.

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Xanax is a benzodiazepine drug. There are many others. While we are focused on the opioid epidemic, the abuse of benzos is growing in the U....
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Should cannibis be used as harm reduction treatment for opioid addiction?

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From Medscape Psychiatry, 02/12/19, by Alicia Ault Thirty-three states, Washington, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico have legalized cannabis...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Monroe County, NY jail offers treatment for opioid addiction

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From WHEC NBC Channel 10 news on 01/17/19   For more click here.

What does the devastation of the opioid epidemic look like on the ground?

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Jan Rader is the fire chief, first responder, and a nurse in Huntington, West Virginia who describes her community's reponse to the opio...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Fentanyl is a killer drug in 50% of opioid overdoses.

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Fentanyl is 10 times more powerful than heroin. Gets mixed into street heroin and kills users by unintentional overdoses.  
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Benzodiazepines Continue to be Prescribed Without Psychotherapy to Older Adults

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From Mad In America, 02/24/17 "A new study, published in the  Journal of the American Geriatric Society , finds that older adults c...
Friday, January 13, 2017

New York State 37th in opiod-involved overdose deaths in 2015

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Increases in drug and opiod involved overdose deaths 2010 - 2015 by state Source: Centers for disease control and prevention. For more ...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Where to turn for help with substance abuse problem

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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Mixing Pot and Tobacco Increases Dependence Risk

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From MedlinePlus on 07/06/16: TUESDAY, July 5, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- People who mix marijuana with tobacco are at greater risk for d...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Risk factors in later adolescent alcohol abuse

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As former Executive Director of GCASA, the Genesee Council On Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, I am proud of the fact that we won the Drug F...