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Tab dump by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Methadone maintenance therapy versus no opioid replacement therapy for opioid dependence - The metareview notes that there were few attempts to measure improvements in wellbei ... Read on »

Stigma and community by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism I read this Ta-Nehisi Coates post yesterday on domestic violence, responsibility, individual agency, community, shame, isolation and empowerment. It's really stuck with me. Ve ... Read on »

Almost impossible to ignore by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism An interesting explanation of dopamine's function --distinguishing drive and motivation from pleasure and reward: In the emerging view, discussed in part at the Society for Ne ... Read on »

Lozenge/Patch Combo Best for Kicking Butts by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Encouraging findings for people trying to quit smoking: Smokers are more than twice as likely to quit if they use the nicotine patch along with nicotine lozenges—compare ... Read on »

Gemini and Granny Growers by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism A mini pot tab dump: Baby Boomers and retirees are plunging into the medical marijuana businessA short history of Gemini Dream Read on »

Recovery pandemic by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism holy cow, it’s happening to you too. Androcles writes a nice post on the infectious nature of recovery and hope. Read on »

Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism From a recent government report: 1.1. Costs of Substance Abuse Studies have shown the annual cost of substance abuse to the Nation to be $510.8 billion in 1999 (Harwood, 2000 ... Read on »

Massive, Risky and Expensive by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Mark Kleiman responds to pushback on some of his alternatives to incarceration: The suggestion that various non-punitive programs might control crime, and that doing so was pr ... Read on »

British Drug Classification by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Andrew Sullivan offers a clear and concise summary of the an initiative to reclassify drugs (the classifications are used to determine criminal penalties). Take the question ... Read on »

Wounded Systems of Care by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism We spend a lot of time talking about recovery-oriented systems of care. Important, but should we first look at facilitating recovery for our systems of care? Peapod writes ab ... Read on »

The right sentence by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism The Washington Post looks toward the end of the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity with some ambivalence. It appears that they failed to consider whether prison sentenc ... Read on »

A reality check on drug use by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism George Will recently wrote a column on drug policy: The Economist magazine says this means that more than 200 million people -- almost 5 percent of the world's adult populatio ... Read on »

Bacon, cheesecake and Ho Hos, oh my! by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Not sure what to make of this: Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. Pleasure centers in the bra ... Read on »

Committed to treatment by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Anchorage, AK is taking some very aggressive steps to address public drunkenness in their community: The new mayor, Dan Sullivan, a Republican, has created a staff position an ... Read on »

Tab dump by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism A brief history of scholastic inebriation (Too bad they missed Robert Smith whose U of M fraternity brothers called his father to fetch him because his drinking was out of han ... Read on »

Drugs around the world by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism The Big Picture sets its lens on drug use across the globe. Read on »

Medical Marijuana Take Down by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Chuck Lane writes a two posttake down on medical marijuana. As turned off as I am by anything that includes the word "druggie", he more or less states my position. ... Read on »

Same info, different reactions by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism I wonder what this means for addiction recovery and treatment messaging: A study that will appear in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health tracked the wa ... Read on »

A tough approach to drug-using mothers by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism The LA Times paints a pretty sympathetic picture of Project Prevention, a program that pays addicticted women to get themselves sterilized or use long term birth control. It c ... Read on »

Tab dump by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Cocaine Vaccine for the Treatment of Cocaine Dependence in Methadone-Maintained PatientsCocaine use doubles in Mexico in six yearsThe genetics of addiction Read on »

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