by Anthony Myers | Aug 25, 2017 | Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
If you do anything specifically to get intoxicated, that’s not ideal. Intoxication can be the necessary or accidental side effect of something, from pain medication to a runner’s elevated endorphins, but if you want and try to get buzzed, high, wasted or drunk, that...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 21, 2017 | Addiction, Substance Abuse
Although we often write about negative developments regarding drug and alcohol abuse, today, we’re excited to report about something. This development? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working to lower the nicotine content of cigarettes. The FDA is...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 17, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
(Pixabay) Prescription pill addiction – primarily the opioids such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl – is not the only substance use disorder that’s on the rise. So is alcohol, the often forgotten “drug” that tops all other categories when it is counted. Opioids...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 11, 2017 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
Pain (Pixabay) Opioid abuse is epidemic, but what is the cause? Is it that the pharmaceutical companies oversold how nonaddictive they were, and people legitimately seeking pain relief accidentally became addicted? Or were they abused by recreational users trying to...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 10, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Recovery, Substance Abuse
Anti-drug poster from the Office of National Drug Control Policy circa 2000. (Wikimedia commons) The War on Drugs may be about to heat up again. Despite last year’s US Surgeon General’s report and the predominant finding by doctors and addiction specialists in general...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 4, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
The opioid prescription pill epidemic may not have reached its peak yet, but concern about scams by unscrupulous rehab operators could hurt efforts to expand the number of addicts in treatment. Most notoriously Kenneth Chatman, a two-bit swindler already convicted on...
