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De-stigmatizing addiction in rural Pennsylvania
https://fox43.com/2018/10/02/de-stigmatizing-addiction-in-rural-pennsylvania/ Comment; Well-written article on how words matter when describing folks suffering from this lethal illness and how we don’t stigmatize diabetics or coronary artery disease patients—we treat...
In the face of crisis, providers’ everyday work isn’t enough
https://www.addictionpro.com/article/education/face-crisis-providers-everyday-work-isnt-enough Comments; South Florida is a hotbed of treatment centers. Many folks get sober in their mid-40’s then when they retire, they move to Florida bringing decades of sobriety...
How to refer a patient with opioid-use disorder to a specialist
https://wire.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/how-refer-patient-opioid-use-disorder-specialist Comments; What we really need is better compensation for dealing with these difficult, time-consuming patients. Once that happens, more physicians will be interested. ...
Different Effects of Social Support on Adolescent Smoking and the Mediation by Smartphone Dependence
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/pages/default.aspx Comment; Interesting approach, bringing the subject of smartphone dependence into the equation… Dancoine, Pierre-François, MD; Gentina, Elodie, PhD Journal of Addiction...
ASAM Applauds Senate Passage of Bipartisan Opioid Package; Legislation is an Important Step Forward to Close the Addiction Treatment Gap and Teach, Standardize, and Cover Addiction Medicine
https://www.asam.org/advocacy/news/asam-advocacy-blog/2018/10/03/asam-applauds-senate-passage-of-bipartisan-opioid-package Comment; What they didn’t do is repeal the limits placed on buprenorphine prescribers. These limits are illogical! Why would you restrict the...
Management of Alcohol Withdrawal | 10.16.2018
https://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(18)30649-5/fulltext Comment; It’s useful to have an idea of who won’t respond well to BZO’s so that other anti-seizure medications can be used to augment BZO treatment. Editorial Comments by W Haning MD...
Addiction Is Hard to Talk About. That’s Why Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet Wanted to Make Beautiful Boy
http://time.com/5413761/beautiful-boy-film/?xid=tcoshare Comment; It’s such a difficult disease to treat—so many times I thought a patient had no chance; “one foot in the grave, another on a banana peel”, then they’d come in for a routine visit and it was evident that...
Indoor chemistry: ozone, volatile organic compounds, and carpets
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es00036a006 Comment; Ozone is reacting with cyclic and polycyclic compounds and generating additional VOC’s. This is expected. Ozone is reactive. Reactive entities & radicals react with more stable larger compounds to break...
Indoor Fine Particles: The Role of Terpene Emissions from Consumer Products
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10473289.2004.10470910 Comments; Unfortunately, “indoor fine particles” does not include the size of these particles. Will HEPA filters remove them? Golam Sarwar,David A. Olson,Richard L. Corsi &Charles J. Weschler...
Shedding light on addiction: UMN students grapple with limited addiction resources
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2018/11/n-shedding-light-on-addiction-umn-students-grapple-with-limited-addiction-resources Comment; Lack of resources for recovery in colleges and universities is a problem that should be addressed. Young people, away from home for the...
Stopped-flow studies of the mechanisms of ozone-alkene reactions in the gas phase. Ethylene
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ja00458a033 Comments; Ozone is very reactive, not as much so as a free radical, but certainly not stable indefinitely under most household temperature & pressure. Ethylene is an organic compound that outgasses from...
As deaths rise, NY lawmakers push for addiction medicine in all state prisons, jails
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/As-deaths-rise-NY-lawmakers-push-for-addiction-13392779.php Comment; MAT should be mandatory in all penal facilities with referral to outpatient treatment settings on release. MAT is the gold standard of care. It works!...
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