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.
extra
extra
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.
extra
extra
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.
extra
extra
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
From a seller’s viewpoint, no customer is more desirable than someone who is actually dependent on their product.
Topics: adolescent addiction, vaping
Striking a Cannabis Balance
…just as repeal of Prohibition didn’t make alcohol any safer for popular use… neither will legalization remove the risks associated with cannabis.
Is Relapse a Crime?
But if a community treats a correctional institution as a kind of locked flophouse, what else we can expect?
Topics: disease, legal problems, relapse, signs and symptoms
Opioid Settlements?
“…over the past five years, less than 10% of the nearly $40 billion in tobacco payments went towards such efforts.”
Conflict of Interest Case Study
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.
Topics: ethics
Tossing the Playbook
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.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, relapse
“Invisible” Hand? Or “Absent” Hand?
In their eagerness to reduce the size of government, states have stripped away staff who would otherwise make onsite visits to ensure compliance.
Topics: administration, compliance and noncompliance
Who’s Looking Out for You?
Sometimes powerful business leaders sound like drunk drivers or corner drug dealers. Rationalizing, externalizing, minimizing…
Topics: alcohol, bad information
In the News: Opioid Addiction and the Private Sector
Portman argues that since business and industry will directly benefit, they should take an active or even a leadership role in this effort.
Topics: financial strategies, opioids, systems