by Anthony Myers | Aug 3, 2017 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
“Sweet fire calling ” ‘You can’t deny me …’ ” – Joni Mitchell, Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire What’s the best treatment for drug addiction? The one that works. Unfortunately there is still a belief among too much of the population...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 28, 2017 | Addiction, Substance Abuse
Most likely you don’t read the journal Addiction, so if you read an article referencing it, you can’t just pull out your copy to check that the article has referenced to it accurately. You take the article at face value. Reading an online discussion of marijuana...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 27, 2017 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse
Ever since President Donald Trump was elected, cannabis advocates, law enforcement, state legislatures and governor’s mansions have all been wondering what he would do about state laws legalizing medical marijuana and recreational marijuana. On the one hand, as a...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 21, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Recovery, Substance Abuse
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often rendered as ACA or “Obamacare” (like the term “muckraker” for investigative journalist,” it was originally intended as an insult, but was embraced by the subject) was much disliked by many people under that name....
by Anthony Myers | Jul 20, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Recovery, Substance Abuse
(Image from Pixabay) Does what you call something affect how you perceive or treat it? Almost certainly. Politicians and activists have long known this. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the language Newspeak is designed to limit thought, and government...
by Anthony Myers | Jul 14, 2017 | Recovery, Substance Abuse
Maybe it’s not surprising that politicians don’t pay attention to most voters. Most voters don’t seem to pay attention to what the candidate they vote for actually says. Policy doesn’t matter, campaign promises don’t matter. For years most voters polled seemed to...