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:
In the News: Disasters and Opioid Treatment
That’s why I’d welcome more research into the tapering process, with an eye to improving success rates.
Topics: MAT, opioids, types of treatment
Is MAT Enough?
Of course with additional treatment responsibilities, a counselor couldn’t be expected to manage a caseload of up to 75.
Topics: MAT, opioids, program development, treatment models
In the News: Fentanyl Epidemic
Then word hits the street of a new product that can make you feel almost like your first time… No wonder they come running. And some never wake up.
Getting Drugs From Docs Part Three: Prevention
Try thinking of the interaction between drug seeker and practitioner as type of negotiation where the two parties have very different goals.
Topics: opioids, physicians, prescription medications
The Blame Game
When you’re addicted, it’s probably more correct to say that your addiction is abusing you. And will continue to do so if allowed.
Getting Drugs From Docs Part Two: The Targets
There are just too many different forms of manipulation for any of us to be uniformly good at identifying them on the fly.
Topics: health care, opioids, physicians, resistance manipulation ambivalence
In the News: Opioid Epidemic “Fixes” vs. Strategy
As we move to correct this problem, we’ll discover that millions of Americans, regular tax-paying citizens included, are already dependent on them.
Topics: opioids, prescription medications