Reflections on Medicine & Life
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.
Ditching the RCT means approving treatments without subjecting them to a test that is purposefully designed to reduce the impact of bias when evaluating their efficacy and safety.
The opioid epidemic is not just an overdose epidemic. It is also an HIV and Hepatitis C epidemic. We need to consider all evidence-based interventions for this, no matter how they challenge our long-held beliefs about morality and addiction.
3 min read…Until a few years ago, I used to spend a few days a year helping psychiatrists prepare for their oral board exams. The exam involved, among other things, interviewing a patient while examiners watched. After the interview the
The addiction ‘treatment gap’ is real, but treatment capacity and healthcare coverage are not the only factors behind it.
4 min read…A couple of days ago, Mountain View, CA police released the video footage of their interaction with Nasim Aghdam about 11 hours before she shot people at You Tube headquarters. It is a remarkably unremarkable video in the