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Class diagnoses rare tick-borne disease in student
https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2019/08/class-diagnoses-rare-tick-borne-disease-in-student/ Comment; This is just another example of the problems caused by the occult nature of this illness--then to have major groups like the IDSA sponsor...
Polymicrobial Nature of Tick-Borne Diseases
https://mbio.asm.org/content/10/5/e02055-19 Comment; Great study & summary on the various pathogens present in ticks--and the often overlooked possibility of a polymicrobial infection from any given tick bite. Vigilance is key! Santiago...
Proposed Lyme Disease Guidelines and Psychiatric Illnesses
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/7/3/105 Comment; I cannot help but believe that there's "something going on behind the scenes" with these organizations and Lyme disease guidelines. The disease is known to be hard to diagnose, serious, multiple relapses, causing great...
CBDistillery; THE ULTIMATE CBD USER GUIDE
https://www.thecbdistillery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CBDistillery-2019-Ultimate-CBD-User-Guide-1.pdf Comment; Excellent review of the differences between Hemp, Marijuana, CBD, THC and the various forms of CBD products, potencies, safety, use, effects, etc. 1 THE...
America’s Jails Are Pretending the Opioid Crisis Doesn’t Exist
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kebnp/americas-jails-are-pretending-the-opioid-crisis-doesnt-exist Comment; I can see both sides of the problem. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) IS the "gold standard" of care, but there is a large component of choice in the...
Inpatient Addiction Medicine Consultation and Post-Hospital Substance Use Disorder Treatment Engagement: a Propensity-Matched Analysis
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-019-05251-9 Comment; This is the only logical approach to reduce recurrences--catch 'em when they're vulnerable, there's no captive audience like somebody in traction in a hospital bed due to foolish choices!...
The e-merging e-pidemic of e-scooters
https://tsaco.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000337 Comment; Good review, no surprises, habitual users often lose their drivers license. Scooters are a reasonable choice in their line of thinking, add to this ongoing substance abuse, the outcome is predictable as verified by...
Association of Parental Incarceration With Psychiatric and Functional Outcomes of Young Adults
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2748665 Comment; This seems to be an article that presents what's been widely observed and known---but can now be quoted from a peer-reviewed journal. Elizabeth...
A scoping review of post opioid-overdose interventions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743519302890?via%3Dihub Comment; Post-overdose care should include drug use disorder help as it is the time frame most likely to be effective in getting a user who nearly died to re-assess their life and what they...
U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain
https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/reports-and-publications/addiction-and-substance-misuse/advisory-on-marijuana-use-and-developing-brain/index.html Comment; Good summary of the risks of marijuana--especially the higher THC concentration product available today, with...
Smartphones may be leaking more radiation than we think
https://www.cnet.com/news/smartphones-may-be-leaking-out-more-radiation-than-we-think-phones/#ftag=CAD-09-10aai5b Comment; Money speaks--loudly! I see no other reason why we'd be exposed to these harmful levels of radiation. I am unable to come up with a reasonable...
Identification of FDA-Approved Drugs with Activity against Stationary Phase Bartonella henselae.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31035691 Comment; This is a great research team! I'd like to get more information on which of these meds also have activity against Babesia, Borrelia and a few of the other tick-borne illnesses. So many medications that I never...
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