Holiday Blues
The Holiday Season can be a wonderful time of giving and sharing, enjoying food and festivities with family and friends. It can also be a very difficult time for someone coping with their addictions, and trying to maintain their recovery.
News and Views on Addiction Treatment
Is America poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts — this is question that starts a recent AP story on changing attitudes about conducting the War on Drugs. Dr. Darryl Inaba comments further.
Many kinds of addictions – beyond comparing legal and illegal drugs
Humankind has a long history of looking for ways of changing our feelings, our consciousness, our relationship to our environment, whether through drugs or dancing or twittering. But trying to compare them, or change entrenched category schemes, is anything but easy.
Drug Courts
Drug courts around the country are helping people get addiction treatment, and stay out of jail.
Medical Marijuana again in the news
New rules from the US Attorney General promises to change enforcement of medical marijuana. Dr Inaba shares some thoughts.
Cocaine vaccine?
A Cocaine vaccine shows some promising results – but more work remains. Dr. Inaba comments.