Blogs
We have four blogs on our site, each with its own focus:
How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (Families) is a question-and-answer format blog that provides help for families struggling with an addiction problem.
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How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (Clinicians) is a question-and answer format blog serving as a discussion forum for treatment clinicians & recovery pros.
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Tips for Treatment Programs is a question-and-answer format blog that gives practical tips for people who want to run excellent treatment & recovery programs.
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Thinking About Addiction is a more traditional “sharing our thoughts” blog that responds to news, information, and whatever’s happening for us right now. It’s too long a title to call it “Thinking About Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery” but that’s a better description.
Here’s a feed of all the posts to all of our blogs:
Relaxing in Recovery
There’s not much point in pretending that all those years of dousing the brain with toxins hasn’t left its mark.
Topics: early recovery, relaxation, stress, tools for recovery
Synergism Strikes
Then there are the users who seek to overcome their own elevated tolerance, which interferes with ordinary drug-taking, by simultaneously consuming a second substance of the same general effect
Topics: consequences, mortality, prescription medications
Is GHB Next?
It’s easy to take too much. When that happens, a coma may result. After waking, it’s common to have suffered memory loss.
Dark Fentanyl
Drug dealers at the higher levels of the marketplace are much like other businesspeople in their natural aversion to bad publicity.
Topics: drug trafficking, mortality, opioids
Landing On Your Feet
For most of us, personal risk management boils down to inserting a process of logical reasoning between the desire and the action.
Topics: decision making, early recovery, maintaining sobriety, risk factors
About Drinking and Smoking
We will have to deal with electronic smoking, which has exploded among young people even as cigarette use has declined.
Topics: alcohol, prevention, tobacco, vaping
Dayton Gets Results
We should remember that Ohio’s Republican governor had to go against the wishes of many in his own party in order to achieve this.
Topics: consequences, mortality, opioids
Proactive is the Key
Not Latin American cartels or Afghan warlords, but advocates for opioid treatment of chronic pain, and pharmaceutical firms with a substantial financial interest in selling opioids.
Topics: epidemiology, opioids