Understanding Addiction
Last Thursday I attended a seminar on “Understanding addiction.” The Institute for Natural Resources sponsored the one day seminar which was a way for nurses and other medical professionals to collect...
View ArticleDrinking Responsibly
Someone recently wrote a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times complaining about the ubiquity of beer related stories in the paper. Writing from a public health perspective, Mr. Klein found it...
View ArticleAlcohol and Cancer
The Irish legislature, the Oireachtas, is considering adding a warning label about drinking and cancer to alcoholic beverages. Ireland would be the first country to have such a warning label. America...
View ArticleAddiction Treatment
Yesterday I listened to Preet Bharara’s podcast, Stay Tuned with Preet. The topic was the opioid crisis. The guests were Susan Salomone, a parent advocate and Dr. Abigail Herron, a psychiatrist who...
View ArticleCirrhosis
Cirrhosis of the liver is on the rise, according to the New York Times. From 1999 to 2016, deaths increased 65%. The largest increase in deaths was in the population group aged 25 to 34. From 199 to...
View ArticleChinese Drinking
I came across this really interesting article about Asian immigrants who live in Oregon and are the only distillers of the traditional Chines liquor, baijiu. When we were in China in 2005, we were...
View ArticleSocial Drinking
Can you be a social drinker? I recently read an article in The New York Times that would suggest the answer was no. The article itself was interesting and the comments were even more interesting. The...
View ArticleMethylated Spirits Revisited
On Sunday my site got 155 views. On Monday 121. That is a lot more views than I usually get. Most of them were to read my post on methylated spirits which is almost seven years old. I don’t really get...
View ArticleSmoking
Any practicing nurse in Massachusetts has to renew his or her license every two years. As part of the license renewal process every nurse has to have done 15 hours of continuing education credits...
View ArticleWhy Meths Drinkers?
For a long time now, my most widely viewed post has been the one I wrote almost 10 years ago about methylated spirits. I had heard a paper at an Alcohol and Drug History Society conference about people...
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