by Anthony Myers | Oct 2, 2017 | Substance Abuse
Older teenagers and adults aren’t the only people who struggle with substance use disorder. Young teenagers and preteenagers (preteens) also abuse substances. Monitoring the Future (MTF) is an annual survey that includes information about drug, alcohol, and tobacco...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 29, 2017 | Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Mental Health, Recovery, Substance Abuse
How To Help Others Become Sober From Native American sobriety circles though Keeley’s Gold Cure and Alcoholics Anonymous, it’s evident that addicts and substance use disorderrs do better when at least some of the people helping them have personal experience...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 29, 2017 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
If you had a magic wand that take away pain, but didn’t use it when someone was in pain, wouldn’t you use it? That may be how the current opioid epidemic started. Physicians were told by pharmaceutical companies that their new opioids were magic: they took away pain...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 28, 2017 | Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
You can find “facts” to fit your desired outcomes, and choose to disregard other information that, in Al Gore’s parlance, are “inconvenient truths.” We’re all guilty of this to one extent or another. It’s called the backfire effect, conformation bias and a few...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 22, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Substance Abuse
Imagine you have a tumor in your shin that causes the bone to break. Now imagine the doctor only puts a splint or a cast on the leg and doesn’t address the tumor. Or bandaging an infected wound without cleaning it or disinfecting it. That’s kind of like substance use...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 21, 2017 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Health and Wellness, Substance Abuse
There is a myth that one of the Sibyls (oracles) approached the last Roman king (before the creation of the Roman Republic), Lucius Tarquinnius Superbus, with several books of prophecies, asking an exorbitant price. He refused, so she burned some of the books, and...
