Our previous blog appealed to the FDA to more strictly regulate the greedily anarchic and rapidly growing e-cigarette industry. The FDA must stop the epidemic of teenage vaping before it causes all sorts of harmful unintended consequences. This blog tackles an equally controversial question that also must be urgently asked and answered, despite the lack of clear […]
People who identify as sexual minorities (those who are lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, or “other”—aka: LGBTQ-IA+) are at higher risk of misusing substances than their heteronormative (straight, cis-gendered) peers.
A pessimistic person might say that overdose deaths from fentanyl and carfentanil are not only out of control, but also inherently uncontrollable. These powerful synthetic opioids are potent enough to kill in extremely tiny doses and too potent to ever successfully keep off the street. What’s Causing Fentanyl’s Widespread and Deadly Usage? The problem is […]
The Marchman and Baker acts need updating if Florida is going to meet the challenges of a raging opioid epidemic and deadly mass shootings.
In mid-June of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared “gaming disorder” a clinically recognizable and significant syndrome.
This concludes my list of common observations among hundreds of long-term weight maintainers and individuals who have resolved serious drinking problems.
I decided it would be really interesting to step back and identify what both groups of people – the “masters of change” – had in common.
Early in my career as a counselor of overweight clients, I wish I’d received a dollar each time a patient said to me, “I know what I need to do; I just can’t get myself to do it.”
Multiple recent reports highlight the fact that the main culprit in today’s opioid crisis is fentanyl and its analogs, much more so than prescription opioids prescribed by healthcare professionals.
As society begins to acknowledge that harassment, abuse and rape are real and serious issues, it is gratifying to see AA finally confronting the truth.
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