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Happy Independence Day! Happy Fourth of July! For readers outside of the United States, July fourth marks the anniversary of the founding of the United States. It is the anniversary of the date in 1776 when people signed the Declaration of Independence, a document...
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Isn’t Always Visible
Tomorrow, readers in the United States will be celebrating Independence Day (the Fourth of July), a day commemorating the independence of the United States from Great Britain in 1776. Many people ignite fireworks to celebrate Independence Day. Seeing the lights and...
Substance Use Disorder, Dual Diagnosis Patients Don’t Benefit Much from Health Savings Accounts
One insanely important feature of the various Republican-based health care reform packages is Health Savings Accounts. Why? The idea behind HSAs is sort of like 401(k)s. You get a tax free account in which employers/and or employees can put money, only in the case of...
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Isn’t Better under Senate’s Health Care Proposal
(Pixabay) Both the House's American Health Care Act and the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act would reduce taxation on the wealthy, but do they need or want it? Whether it is the intent or not, the benefits of the AHCA and BCRA mostly go to the wealthy and the...
People Helping People and Avoiding Substance Use Disorder
The streaming service Netflix offers an intriguing and popular series, Grace and Frankie. The show follows the exploits of two California women, Grace (played by Jane Fonda) and Frankie (portrayed by Lily Tomlin) after their husbands leave to marry each other....
Serenity, Not Substance Use Disorder
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and other similar 12-step rehab programs use part of this prayer and include it in their literature. This...
Treatment and Recovery Keep Giving
It’s about six months until (or after) Christmas, depending on the way you look at it. Maybe now’s a good time to talk about the gifts that keep giving. These gifts aren't something material, yet they can be much harder to attain and keep. They can also be more...
Mental Health Czarina Reveals Substance Use Disorder Treatment’s Dual Diagnosis
There is a divide in opinion about multiple personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder – when one person has different personalities that assert themselves at different times. That divide is whether MPD or DID really exists. Prominent real world cases such...
Presidential Commission on Prescription Drug Abuse Lacks Credibility
(Photo source: Pixabay) When Donald J. Trump was campaigning for office, he promised to fight the U.S. epidemic of opioid addiction, overdoses and deaths – from heroin, prescription medicines such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, and even deadlier super opioids fentanyl...
The Pope’s Surprising Words about Drug Addiction
You know that something is bad when the pope comments on it: “Drugs have inflicted a deep wound on our society and ensnared many people in their web. Many victims have lost their freedom … enslaved by an addiction we could call ‘chemical.’” Pope Francis spoke these...