Kim May
Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder
You may have recognized that the way you drink is causing you some problems. Perhaps you want to change your drinking patterns, but you...
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Kim May
- Feb 24
- 5 min
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Options
There is no right treatment, only what is right for you. The abundance of treatment options is ultimately a positive, but it can make...
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Kim May
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
Ketamine Therapy: An Overview
It is hard not to notice the proliferation of clinics offering ketamine therapy. Up until recently, ketamine was mostly known as a club...
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Kim May
- Sep 22, 2022
- 4 min
Codependency is not a diagnosis
In the world of substance use treatment, the term codependency is used with such great frequency it has become almost synonymous with...
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Kim May
- May 26, 2022
- 3 min
Travis County Declares Public Health Crisis
Overdose deaths have been receiving massive amounts of coverage for the past two years as the numbers continue to rise. And yes, they are...
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Dan Escobar, LPC
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
Substance Use in the LGBTQ+ Population
Do you know someone who identifies in the LGBTQ+ community? Odds are that you do. If so, there is a chance this person, like others you...
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Kim May
- Mar 17, 2022
- 4 min
What is Harm Reduction?
Harm reduction made history recently when it was included in the steps the current White House Administration is taking to address our...
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Kim May
- Feb 8, 2022
- 5 min
What is a neurotransmitter?
Many of us use or come to depend on the effects of drugs without quite understanding how they work. All drugs (well the good ones anyway)...
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Kim May
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
Why Saving Lives is Harder in Texas
Damn you Greg Abbott. I am reasonable enough to understand that we all have differing political views and priorities. However, as a...
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Kim May
- Sep 22, 2021
- 4 min
So, what is a hangover?
Hangovers may be ubiquitous, but research around on the topic is not. Surprising, right? Apparently, the research is so scant, they have...
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Kim May
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
Essential Overdose Prevention
93,000. That is the approximate number of overdose deaths that occurred in 2020. According to Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the...
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Kim May
- May 26, 2021
- 4 min
Changing our Habits
“Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” -Mark Twain Change is hard,...
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Kim May
- May 12, 2021
- 4 min
Understanding Substance Use
You just found drugs in your teenager’s bedroom. Your sister has relapsed. Your partner arrived home drunk for the third time this week....
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Kim May
- May 5, 2021
- 3 min
The Buprenorphine Bias
Even though buprenorphine is an evidence-based treatment for opioid dependence, there are very few substance use facilities that will...
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Kim May
- Mar 25, 2021
- 4 min
Blackouts: What they are and how to avoid them
It has happened to the best of us. We start drinking, we remember getting to the bar and that annoying song was playing. We remember...
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Kim May
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Crack: Facts and Safety
This may come as a surprise to you, but there are no pharmacological differences between crack and cocaine. The two main differences...
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Kim May
- Nov 4, 2020
- 5 min
The problem with tough love
Caring about someone who struggles with substance use can be many things—devastating, overwhelming, scary, frustrating, confusing, even...
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Kim May
- Oct 13, 2020
- 5 min
Methadone Part 2: Myths
Methadone treatment is widely criticized, but often, those criticisms are based on myths or lack of understanding. Granted, methadone,...
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Kim May
- Sep 30, 2020
- 4 min
Fentanyl & Harm Reduction
Harm reduction practitioners accept that not all substance use is problematic. Perhaps this is a crude metaphor, but let’s compare it to...
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Kim May
- Sep 23, 2020
- 5 min
Methadone Treatment: An Overview
For many years I worked at a methadone clinic. Although I learned many important things about being a clinician in graduate school, I...
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