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:
Drugstore Cowboy
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
Topics: consequences, legal problems, opioids, physical effects
Truth Comes Out
Some people are surprised that someone could function at such a high level in public despite significant drug use, but that’s something addiction has been known for.
Topics: opioids, prescription medications, risk factors
Breaking Up With Vaping
Sure, the tar was gone, but as one of the other counselors put it, “that thing ain’t nothin’ but a crack pipe for nicotine.”
Topics: addictive substances, vaping
Oh– as for Fentanyl…
…we’re often well behind the curve in terms of what’s actually happening in colleges and bars and on the streets around America.
Topics: drug trafficking, epidemiology, opioids
Politics and Drugs
And yet our legal system seems designed to punish the low level offender while protecting their counterparts in business and government.
Topics: drug trafficking, epidemiology, vaping
Skunked
There is research that links more potent cannabis, including skunk, to THC-related changes in the brain, among daily users at least.
Topics: addiction and the brain, cannabis, research
Fundraising 101
These volunteers work for the welfare of the community by supporting the important work of your organization.
Topics: administration, family involvement, financial strategies, recovery-friendly, stigma