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The Drug Trade Hurts Everyone
Drug abuse doesn’t just physically damage our bodies. The demand for drugs damages so much more. After all, drug trafficking is a global, multibillion dollar business. People have made fame (or infamy) and fortunes from their part in the drug trade. Prominent drug...
Addressing Drug Addiction around the World
Quick, name the prominent political figure who recommends rewarding people who kill drug dealers. No, it’s not 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Actually, this political figure is Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines. As outrageous as it...
Opioid Addiction: A Global Problem
The problem of opioid addiction just seems getting bigger and bigger. People around the world are getting hooked on and dying from it. Tramadol is an opioid, which means that it’s chemically similar to morphine, heroin, fentanyl, and a host of other drugs. Except for...
Don’t Think Pink
One of the most astounding things about humans is that we’re capable of change. We can change ourselves to adapt to our environments. We can change other things to suit our environments. Our whole evolutionary history is millions of years of seemingly subtle changes...
Alcohol and Depression, Part 2
As more and more is discovered about the association between depression and overall health, we have learned that depression can be treated in many ways. Whether it be psychotherapy, psychiatry, and other forms of therapy, like holistic or animal or art therapy....
Bipolar Disorder and Substance Use Disorder, Part 2
Here's the second part in our series about the association between bipolar disorder and alcoholism. We initially discussed how bipolar disorder can predispose any individual with the diagnosis with a huge risk. Those diagnosed with bipolar disorder are far more likely...
Borderline Personality and Drug Abuse
What's wrong with you? Why do you keep doing crazy, reckless things? Don't you see that you're being awful to others? Borderline Personality (BPD) might be reasonably considered one of the most misunderstood mental illnesses. As we discussed in the last blog post...
Celebrities, Drugs, and You
Does celebrity drug use really encourage other people to drink or use drugs? I’ve often wondered that. It seems like this question is similar to the one that asks if media violence prompts real-life violence. In other blogs, we’ve discussed how celebrities, especially...
Carfentanil: A New Danger
Apparently, fentanyl isn’t the worst thing out there anymore. It’s carfentanil. Fentanyl, as you might know, is a powerful painkilling drug that is 100 times more powerful than morphine. Some doctors and medical groups recommend prescribing fentanyl only in cases of...
Glorifying Marijuana?
What’s the deal with marijuana? Do I sound like comedian Jerry Seinfeld? It seems that Jerry Seinfeld’s one of the few celebrities who hasn’t talked about marijuana in recent years. We’re not going to get into whether marijuana is physically addictive and whether it...
