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:
Abused by Alcohol
Like the film where Amy Shumer chugs boxed wine, and inadvertently drives up sales to admiring fans.
Topics: alcohol, consequences, mortality
NarCan’t?
To support revenues, companies look for ways to augment or alter older products and justify price increases.
Topics: mortality, prescription medications
Cannabis as an Opioid Addiction Treatment
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.
Topics: cannabis, co-occurring disorders, opioids, therapies and tools
Maintenance Dilemma
Would you respond to this information with a concerted effort at self-examination and profound behavior change?
Topics: addiction medications, client engagement and motivation, MAT, opioids
In the News: Heroin Deaths Surpass Gun-Related Deaths
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.
Suboxone and Overdose
Topics: addiction medications, consequences, mortality, opioids, prescription medications
Viral Pot
It will be very difficult to measure the true effect of cannabis alone, other than in the most general way.
Topics: cannabis
Vagaries of Vaping
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.
Topics: addictive substances, risk factors, tobacco, vaping