Below, Odyssey House President Dr. Peter Provet comments on an article in USA Today (“As marijuana-induced psychosis rises, parents say treatment for young people hard to find,” Jan. 6). A recent article illustrates a fallacy about marijuana: that it is fundamentally safe, or at least,…
Dr. Peter Provet, president of Odyssey House, responds to a recent article on the steep increase in daily marijuana use among high school students. To the Editor: Re “Regular Marijuana Use by High School Students Hits New Peak,…
Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow By Peter Provet, Ph.D. The debate over the legalization of marijuana is of paramount importance to treatment providers, healthcare professionals, educators, criminal-justice officials, families, and the millions of American men, women and adolescents whose lives are at risk because of marijuana. It’s a debate that has shifted focus…
To the Editor: “Distilling the Truth in the Ecstasy Buzz” (news article, Aug. 6): In our rush to protect our youth from the dangerous drug Ecstasy, let’s not forget the far more pervasive and destructive drug of choice of millions of school-age children: marijuana. Your article includes the stunning…
Manhattan: Parents’ outrage over the treatment their marijuana-smoking teenagers received from the New York City Police Department following the kids’ arrests at a pro-legalization rally in lower Manhattan on May 6 is at once baffling and worrisome. Baffling because the parents, who obviously care about the welfare of their children,…