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:

Abused by Alcohol

January 5, 2017 by C. Scott McMillin

Like the film where Amy Shumer chugs boxed wine, and inadvertently drives up sales to admiring fans.

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NarCan’t?

January 2, 2017 by C. Scott McMillin

To support revenues, companies look for ways to augment or alter older products and justify price increases.

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Cannabis as an Opioid Addiction Treatment

December 29, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

It usually comes back to the assumption that another problem ‘underlies’ addiction, and therefore will respond to treatment with the “right” drug, if we can figure out what it is.

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Maintenance Dilemma

December 22, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

Weary looking young man lies on sofa extending a remote control.

Would you respond to this information with a concerted effort at self-examination and profound behavior change?

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In the News: Heroin Deaths Surpass Gun-Related Deaths

December 19, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

Sadly, the notion of addiction as a disease remains counter-intuitive for many Americans, who instead assume it’s the user’s own fault, the result of some horrendously unwise decision-making process.

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In the News: Video Gambling

December 12, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

Psychologists say that for many the goal is simply to enter and remain in what’s called ‘the zone’

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Suboxone and Overdose

December 8, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

Naloxone is there to prevent someone from injecting Suboxone to get high.

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In the News: Pot in Pueblo

December 5, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

Suddenly Pueblo finds itself facing problems typical of a much larger city.

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Viral Pot

December 1, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

It will be very difficult to measure the true effect of cannabis alone, other than in the most general way.

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Vagaries of Vaping

November 28, 2016 by C. Scott McMillin

Helps to think of an electronic cigarette as just another drug delivery device, along the lines of a high-tech crack pipe, capable of carrying a number of different substances to the brain.

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