Addicting Medications: Limited Therapeutics
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 1170
Special Issue Editors
Interests: addiction; psychiatry; addicting medications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past several decades, addicting medications have become widespread and dangerous health problems within the United States. The opioid crisis, along with other drugs such as marijuana, stimulants, and psychedelics, are permeating and creating negative consequences on the population. Additionally, this rise in use is causing an unprecedented increase in mental health issues, legal issues, exacerbating already-present conditions, and causing other negative health effects, including death. This Special Issue will demonstrate how these drugs affect people negatively and their lack of efficacy, containing emerging research on how to help patients suffering from addiction diseases, the science of addiction itself, and the possibility that psychedelics are the next type of proposed medication leading to adverse public health consequences. The goal of this Issue is to showcase the negative effects that opioids, marijuana, stimulants, and psychedelics have on peoples’ health and on society due to addiction. This Special Issue will feature available studies that show how addictive medications have limited positive effects and predominantly negative effects when used chronically or even short-term, depending on the drug.
We encourage research about the following topics for submission:
- What is addiction?
- Amphetamines and differential diagnosis.
- Psychedelic history.
- Addictive use of medications, despite controlled environment.
- The complicity of pharmaceutical companies and physicians with addicting medications.
- Ease of diversion of addicting medications.
- Health problems with psychedelics.
- Why addicting medications are controlled substances.
- Lack of research support.
- Disrespect of addiction diseases.
Guest Editor
Dr. Norman S. Miller
Dr. Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- addiction
- opioids
- marijuana
- psychedelics
- medications
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