Dr. Ross Grumet

Many adults have been hyperactive, restless, or inattentive when they were children. These problems may still be present, especially difficulty reading and remembering the beginning of a sentence when they get to the end. But what most interferes with successful living is a particular handicap: a lack of skill in making decisions, being able to …

Deaths from opioid use are all around us.  Some may be suicidal behavior: you can almost see it coming when a heroin user is depressed and doesn’t seem to care much about herself or himself, and indulges in various risky behaviors (even injecting substances into my bloodstream seems an unusually dangerous thing to do when …

Xanax is the stand in for all benzodiazepines (BZDs), but it may be more grabbing/intense/problematic than others (Klonopin, Ativan, Valium, etc.) They all work by attaching to the brain’s GABA-A receptors and increasing the amount of GABA (gamma amino butyric acid) in the brain, as well as increasing dopamine. GABA is the main substance in …