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:
Expert Nonsense
The flaw in this very late-stage view of addiction… is the suggestion that somehow, addiction is the patient’s fault. Avoidable if the patient simply followed directions.
Topics: MAT, opioids, prescription medications, risk factors
Cross-Addiction
Newcomers had a tendency to focus their attention on the drug that brought them to treatment, ignoring others they happened to have been using.
Topics: diagnosis, signs and symptoms
Understanding Research: Meta-analysis
If Ginormous Study #1 happens to be flawed methodologically, those errors will carry right over into the meta-analysis process.
Topics: bad information, research
Boxing
I’m sure some is used to suppress withdrawal, but if it’s possible to get high, then you have to figure people are doing that, too.
Topics: addiction medications, MAT, opioids
The Politics of Painkillers
It’s hard to believe any American physician is unaware of the epidemic, but it appears that many have taken the position that it’s not their problem.
Topics: opioids
Crystal Ball: Cannabis Use Disorder
There’s a lag between the onset of an addictive disorder and arrival in treatment.
Topics: cannabis, diagnosis, recognizing addiction
In the News: Notes from the Epidemic
It’s no accident (physicians) choose this often challenging work, and it genuinely bothers them when they can’t relieve a patient’s discomfort.
Topics: health care, opioids, physicians
No, It Wasn’t the Pain
As tired or sleep-deprived or in pain as he might have been that night, if he hadn’t taken the drugs, would he still be alive?
Topics: celebrity, mortality, opioids
Opioids for Pain Relief? It Depends…
The pharmaceutical industry, in spite of their immense resources, may not be the best candidate to come up with a solution.
Topics: health care, opioids, pain, physical effects
War For Drugs
Current drug laws are structured in such a way as to leave law enforcement permanently behind and struggling to catch up.
Topics: mortality, synthetics
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