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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Many individuals, distracted by the mind’s chatter, don’t realize their level of anxiety. Dr. Jonathan Schmidt Dr. Schmidt is a board-certified family medicine physician with undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and medicine from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

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Both THC and alcohol come with risks and perceived rewards, depending on the individual. An Individual Decision Besides considering THC’s illegal status in Indiana, the choice to use is an individual one. Even without definitive THC research, users shouldn’t assure themselves it’s a perfectly safe alternative to alcohol.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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