Marijuana legalization continues to make strides. If authorities wish to put reasonable restraints on use, they must put forward factual information, call for more research, and stop dragging their feet … Continue reading →

Films based on true events, whether personal stories or great historical moments, are nevertheless often factually challenged. Such films—A Beautiful Mind, Hidden Figures, Argo, Lincoln—tend to embroider the facts for … Continue reading →

Drug dealers don’t belong to the Better Business Bureau, but you’d think they would at least want their customers to live to continue to buy their products. Maybe not. First, … Continue reading →

In 2016 the-US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health. It was intended as akin to an earlier Surgeon … Continue reading →

On Nov. 2, the Food and Drug Administration approved the opioid Dsuvia, a sublingual tablet (it is placed under the tongue until it dissolves, providing faster pain relief than intravenous … Continue reading →

As hard as it may be to believe, we still have a lot of privacy in this country. For instance, when you die, it isn’t always clear how you died. … Continue reading →

There’s a saying often attributed to Voltaire (though similar antecedents date back to Shakespeare and even Confucius) that is often translated or paraphrased: “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy … Continue reading →

Should the cure for an illness be harder to get than the cause? Well, it is. As you are probably tired of hearing, we are in the midst of an … Continue reading →

It’s been a busy few months in the substance abuse treatment community. It remains to be seen how productive that activity will end up being. On Sept. 17, the president … Continue reading →

We’re in the midst of an opioid epidemic, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other drugs causing problems, addictions, and overdose deaths. Opioids are drugs that have effects similar to … Continue reading →