We have four blogs on our site, each with its own focus:

HTT-Fam

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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HTT-Clin

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

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

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:

The Vaping Dilemma

July 5, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

From a seller’s viewpoint, no customer is more desirable than someone who is actually dependent on their product.

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Striking a Cannabis Balance

July 2, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

…just as repeal of Prohibition didn’t make alcohol any safer for popular use… neither will legalization remove the risks associated with cannabis.

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Is Relapse a Crime?

June 28, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

But if a community treats a correctional institution as a kind of locked flophouse, what else we can expect?

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In the News: Purdue Knew

June 25, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

Maybe they reasoned that even if they were caught out, they could avoid the worst penalties.

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Opioid Settlements?

June 21, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

“…over the past five years, less than 10% of the nearly $40 billion in tobacco payments went towards such efforts.”

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Conflict of Interest Case Study

June 18, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

Obviously, being able to give your own business a five star rating on a supposedly independent consumer website could be construed as an unfair advantage.

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Tossing the Playbook

June 14, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

We’ve come a long way in treating addictions, but we’re still not very successful at convincing a patient to stick to a treatment regimen.

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“Invisible” Hand? Or “Absent” Hand?

June 11, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

In their eagerness to reduce the size of government, states  have stripped away staff who would otherwise make onsite visits to ensure compliance.

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Who’s Looking Out for You?

June 7, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

Sometimes powerful business leaders sound like drunk drivers or corner drug dealers. Rationalizing, externalizing, minimizing…

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In the News: Opioid Addiction and the Private Sector

June 4, 2018 by C. Scott McMillin

Portman argues that since business and industry will directly benefit, they should take an active or even a leadership role in this effort.

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