Reflections on Medicine & Life
2 min read…Today I found myself answering trying to help someone asking for things to keep in mind when prescribing buprenorphine, more commonly known by one of its brand names, Suboxone®. I responded with list below. Treating patients with any
1 min read…As the opioid epidemic shows no signs of abating, the term “harm reduction” has entered into the lay media. We hear about mentioned in all sorts of places. It has support in conservative parts of the country. People
2 min read…It’s no longer news that are in the midst of an opioid crisis. It was couple of decades in the making, but we have been wise to it for about a decade. We first responded to it by
3 min read…Marijuana propaganda distorts public policy debate. It has been doing so for decades. It has been doing so from both ends of the spectrum — from the side that would have us believe that it is among the most
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.