How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (clinicians)

As any case manager knows, making a referral can be a challenge, since many fall by the wayside during transition to another provider, different therapist, etc.

Addiction programs, conversely, targeted elimination or at least substantial reduction in substance use– a narrower goal that permitted greater focus in treatment.

Newcomers had a tendency to focus their attention on the drug that brought them to treatment, ignoring others they happened to have been using.

It’s often true that the folks who are technically most misinformed on an issue have the greatest degree of confidence in the rightness of their beliefs.

Try thinking of recovery as a learning process based in experience rather than the acquisition of information.

Most people in stable recovery got there the hard way, through major alterations in the way they live.

…progress is the measuring stick. You want your patient to know the joy of a structured, purposeful life.

This is also an opportunity to work on an all-important issue in early recovery: personal boundaries.

I’m told that less than half of contemporary medical practice is actually rooted in evidence.

Project Match has long been held up as demonstrating the efficacy of three very different approaches.