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Would Your Baby Pass The Test?
Read more: Would Your Baby Pass The Test?The number one cause of pregnancy-related deaths in the US is mental health conditions, which includes overdose and poisoning related to substance use disorders.
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And Another Thing
Read more: And Another Thing“We’ve whitewashed the language of addiction to the point of ridiculousness.”
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Ask and It Shall Be Answered…
Read more: Ask and It Shall Be Answered…Imagine the death rates if we simply asked those who suffer from the more-recognized diseases [than addiction] how their diseases are being managed.
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That Deadly Drink
Read more: That Deadly DrinkJust because it’s legal – and just because the government sold us out to the deep pockets of the alcohol industry – doesn’t mean that it’s safe.
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FASDs in Corrections: We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Read more: FASDs in Corrections: We Don’t Know What We Don’t KnowDetermining whether someone has a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – which in itself is not diagnosable – has proven to be difficult, at best. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, or FASDs, is the umbrella term describing the range of adverse effects that can occur in an individual due to prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). The diagnoses, per…
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Meet the New Drugs…Just Like the Old Drugs…
Read more: Meet the New Drugs…Just Like the Old Drugs…So with all these “new” drugs on the market that people are misusing, testing, as in direct biomarkers using fingernails, is the only way to know what’s being used.
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Addiction Happens to All of Us
Read more: Addiction Happens to All of UsAddiction is that thing that no one cares about…until it happens to you or your loved one. But these days, nearly everyone has someone whom it’s happened to. When I first started in the field of addiction back in the late ’80s, the statistic was that a quarter of individuals were affected by a loved…
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Let’s Not Raise a Glass So Fast…to Alcohol
Read more: Let’s Not Raise a Glass So Fast…to AlcoholAlcohol is dangerous and deadly. It’s the most dangerous legal drug, and it’s the second-most deadly legal drug. Given this information, I am BEGGING for someone to explain to me how society has become so inured to the dangers of alcohol that we completely ignore them. Case in point: I watched the sixth season of…
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Who’s Zooming Who?
Read more: Who’s Zooming Who?As of September 20, SAMHSA is reporting that, “For substance use specifically, of the 29.0 million adults who perceived that they ever had a substance use problem, 72.2% (or 20.9 million) considered themselves to be in recovery or to have recovered from their drug or alcohol use problem” (samhsa). As you know, if you’ve read…
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Umbilical Cord Tissue: Faster Answers; Better Outcomes
Read more: Umbilical Cord Tissue: Faster Answers; Better OutcomesUmbilical Cord Tissue: Faster Answers; Better Outcomes My last blog was all about screening neonates for substances of abuse and why we don’t screen often enough. I didn’t answer that question – because I don’t understand why we don’t, but you can read the blog here: https://the4csofaddiction.wordpress.com/2023/12/01/knowledge-is-power-and-more-is-readily-available-through-neonate-screening-for-drugs-of-abuse/ Now, let’s say we learned our lesson, and…
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