Reflections on Medicine & Life
3 min read…Addiction is a chronic disease. It has a ‘lifestyle’ factors, i.e. it relies on apparently voluntary choices by its victim for its perpetuation. One can argue about how ‘voluntary’ those choices really are during different phases of the
2 min read…A few days ago, while reading Staten Island Law Enforcement Won’t Stop Fighting the War on Drugs I found myself again asking whether the war on drugs was always a war on people with addiction. We are in the midst
Digging deeper into the CDC report regarding suicides, I find that the factors that appear to be significantly correlated with suicides today are the same as I was taught on the first day of my psychiatry residency training – male gender, access to firearms and current substance use.
The beginning of history of modern China is marked by the US supporting the British in forcing China to allow the unfettered sale of opium. Ironically, now we seek to stop the flow of illegal synthetic opioids from China.
Often elements of their social support system that help a person with addiction maintain the illusion that the ice they are skating on is thicker than it actually is.
Functional Addict: A self-descriptive term often used by a person with addiction who has somehow managed to keep his job while the rest of his world lies in ruins.