by Anthony Myers | Oct 25, 2016 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
The problem of opioid addiction just seems getting bigger and bigger. People around the world are getting hooked on and dying from it. Tramadol is an opioid, which means that it’s chemically similar to morphine, heroin, fentanyl, and a host of other drugs. Except for...
by Anthony Myers | Oct 24, 2016 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
One of the most astounding things about humans is that we’re capable of change. We can change ourselves to adapt to our environments. We can change other things to suit our environments. Our whole evolutionary history is millions of years of seemingly subtle changes...
by Anthony Myers | Oct 18, 2016 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
What’s the deal with marijuana? Do I sound like comedian Jerry Seinfeld? It seems that Jerry Seinfeld’s one of the few celebrities who hasn’t talked about marijuana in recent years. We’re not going to get into whether marijuana is physically addictive and whether it...
by Anthony Myers | Oct 13, 2016 | Substance Abuse
Another day, another post about Halloween. Today’s post is about celebrating holidays without alcohol. Some people might think that a holiday with alcohol is not a holiday at all. They might think that it’s impossible to truly celebrate a holiday without using alcohol...
by Anthony Myers | Oct 7, 2016 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
A few years back, a unique episode of Intervention aired: Elena was a 63 year old woman living in Fortuna, California with a substance use disorder problem: she snorted crystal meth and popped painkillers endlessly. As an LGBTQ-identified woman, she’d grown up...
by Anthony Myers | Oct 6, 2016 | Substance Abuse
Canada is proposing legislation that might help curb the abuse of nicotine and cigarettes in that country. The country’s proposal? It wants to require cigarette manufacturers to use plain packaging for their cigarettes. All cigarette packaging would include the same...
