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I never saw much difference between a lawyer or a doctor bitching about his job in group, and the same behavior from a CPA or a techie or a long-distance trucker.

Even when (the epidemic is) finished, society is usually left with a continuing problem, just one that isn’t growing the way it was.

The addiction potential was so high it was classified with the controlled substances, and it’s uncommon to find it outside the Arab world.

Prescription ODs now account for more fatalities than automobile accidents.

A former national insurance exec observed that when you work in healthcare management, most of your day is spent looking at columns of numbers.

In other words, they may also be engaged in professional treatment, attending live support groups, seeking medical or mental health care, or some combination of the above.

Many clinicians work in busy programs with lots of staff and most of the time still feel like they’re alone, almost a solo practitioner, but with a lot less control over their activities

It’s often true that the folks who are technically most misinformed on an issue have the greatest degree of confidence in the rightness of their beliefs.

Sometimes it’s just a personal conviction that you (or human beings in general) need to experience some type of chemical euphoria in order to live a full and happy existence.

Many arrive in addiction treatment with clear symptoms of pathological gambling that often go unrecognized.