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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
1d ago
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.
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
4d ago
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.
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
1w ago
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
1w ago
it's an omen of bad times to come. Why? Because people in New Mexico's cities are not buying enough pot.
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
2w ago
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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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
3w ago
the goal, as one official described it, is to "discourage unlicensed cannabis activities and to help level the playing field for legitimate businesses paying their taxes."
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
3w ago
I suppose none of her staff or colleagues thought of seeking professional help. An intervention, for instance. Or perhaps they considered it but decided it was not their place to interfere. Maybe they were scared of her reaction. People around the drinker often are.
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
1M ago
Do I need to point out that although less harmful than polluting your lungs and body with tobacco smoke, nicotine pouches aren't exactly good for the user's health?
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
1M ago
Does this remind anyone of the 'grass roots' movement that arose to lobby Congress for reduced restriction on long-term opioid prescribing for chronic pain patients?
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RecoverySI | Thinking About Addiction
1M ago
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?
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