Practicing psychiatry is very tricky. Heavy-duty pills have serious side effects. To some observers, psychiatric medications are prescribed only to make money and psychiatrists are seen as evil witches casting spells. The world is not so simple, as there are psychiatrists working to get patients off medications. A number of websites such as Mad in … Continue reading Psychiatry at Crossroads: Learn from Addiction Medicine
Using Mind-Body Connection for Deep Healing The average medical marijuana cardholder in California is a 32-year-old male who uses it for chronic pain. If so many young people have so much chronic pain, it’s tempting to think medical marijuana is for “anyone who can fake an ache,” according to Professor Jon Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon … Continue reading Successful Strategies for Deep Healing of Trauma and Pain
The common element in all these suicides or self-inflicted deaths was marijuana. Marijuana was the factor, not alcohol or other drugs…………in all cases. (Read Part 1 and Part 2) Marc Bullard, 23 Colorado Brant Clark, 17 Colorado Tron Dohse, 26 Colorado Luke Goodman, 23 Colorado, traveling from Oklahoma Daniel Juarez, 18 Colorado … Continue reading The Common Element in These Suicides: Marijuana
When Hamza Warsame fell six floors to his death in December, 2015, the social media was abuzz with suggestions of a hate crime against the Muslim teen. Warsame, an immigrant from Somalia, was living in Seattle and had been invited to the 21-year-old classmate’s apartment. However, the news came out that Warsame had smoked marijuana … Continue reading Marijuana and Suicide: A Growing Risk for Our Youth
