If psychiatry is the Cinderella of medicine, addiction medicine is the Cinderella of psychiatry. These were the words of a local psychiatrist mentioned during a course I attended several years ago that just stuck in my mind because indeed, almost nobody wants to deal with these problems and these patients. I am a non-smoker and…… Continue reading Are long-lived people who age gracefully less prone to addiction?
Tag: Addiction
Work won’t love you back
There are stigmatizing addictions..and then there is a pretty one: workaholism. Because it is a socially-acceptable one, there are very few clinicians who know how to treat it – or even to recognize it in the first place! Workaholism even has a derived niche addiction called “careaholism” and it’s blatant in the medical profession. Basically,…… Continue reading Work won’t love you back