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...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.
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human-experience
medication
prescription-drugs
psychiatry
shutter-island
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Dennis Lehane |
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"New Rule: Stop pretending your drugs are morally superior to my drugs because you get yours at a store. This week, they released the autopsy report on Anna Nicole Smith, and the cause of death was what I always thought it was: mad cow. No, it turns out she had nine different prescription drugs in her--which, in the medical field, is known as the "full Limbaugh." They opened her up, and a Walgreens jumped out. Antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills, sleeping pills, sedatives, Valium, methadone--this woman was killed by her doctor, who is a glorified bartender. I'm not going to say his name, but only because (a) I don't want to get sued, and (b) my back is killing me. This month marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of a famous government report. I was sixteen in 1972, and I remember how excited we were when Nixon's much ballyhooed National Commission on Drug Abuse came out and said pot should be legalized. It was a moment of great hope for common sense--and then, just like Bush did with the Iraq Study Group, Nixon took the report and threw it in the garbage, and from there the '70s went right into disco and colored underpants. This week in American Scientist, a magazine George Bush wouldn't read if he got food poisoning in Mexico and it was the only thing he could reach from the toilet, described a study done in England that measured the lethality of various drugs, and found tobacco and alcohol far worse than pot, LSD, or Ecstasy--which pretty much mirrors my own experiments in this same area. The Beatles took LSD and wrote Sgt. Pepper--Anna Nicole Smith took legal drugs and couldn't remember the number for nine-one-one. I wish I had more time to go into the fact that the drug war has always been about keeping black men from voting by finding out what they're addicted to and making it illegal--it's a miracle our government hasn't outlawed fat white women yet--but I leave with one request: Would someone please just make a bumper sticker that says, "I'm a stoner, and I vote."
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prescription-drugs
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Bill Maher |
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A patient complains of feeling nervous or fearful. These feelings and behaviors suggest that the patient has an anxiety disorder, and the doctor prescribes whatever drug will most probably work for an anxiety disorder. However, there's no conclusive way to tell that this patient definitely has an anxiety disorder. Even if the doctor did get the diagnosis correct, there's a great deal of variation regarding which drug class (for example, anti-anxiety drugs versus antidepressants) a particular individual will respond to and which drug within a class (for example, Prozac versus Zoloft) will work best. If the drug doesn't work, the doctor will try the next one on the list and so on, thus delaying treatment success and complicating the process with the mix-and-match type of treatment.
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drug-rehab
holistic-treatment-center
non-12-step
passages-malibu
prescription-drugs
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Chris Prentiss |
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If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary reason there is such a high rate of relapse among people who have become dependent of alcohol and addictive drugs. It has little to do with alcohol and addiction themselves and almost everything to do with the original causes that created the dependency.
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addiction-and-recovery
alcohol-addiction
alcohol-treatment-center
alcoholism
chris-prentiss
dependency
drug-abuse
ecstasy
heroin
passages-malibu
passages-ventura
pax-prentiss
prescription-abuse
prescription-drugs
self-help
substance-abuse
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Chris Prentiss |
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The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer- everyone is selling ethanol.
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addiction-and-recovery
alcohol-addiction
alcohol-treatment-center
alcoholism
beer
chris-prentiss
dependency
drug-abuse
ecstasy
heroin
passages-malibu
passages-ventura
pax-prentiss
prescription-abuse
prescription-drugs
self-help
substance-abuse
wine
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Chris Prentiss |