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I’ve noticed that managers who had success in other industries have a tendency to view treatment as a form of manufacturing.

Some good news: despite continuing struggles, Kentucky and West Virginia did not experience a significant increase in fatalities versus 2013.

A piece of business worth $9 billion a year is precious to Big Pharma.

Our healthcare system supports more and in some cases better treatment based on the ability to pay for it.

It’s simply evidence of the shift by chronic users to a cheaper, more readily available alternative.

I’m constantly focused on acknowledging things I can’t control. I turn it over to my HP just like I used to do with the desire to drink.

Kids in the audience already know someone who uses drugs without appearing to suffer much from it. Assertions to the contrary by some stranger are automatically dismissed.

Try thinking of recovery as a learning process based in experience rather than the acquisition of information.

Then again, there was a time when heroin addiction was primarily an urban phenomenon, and that didn’t last.

If by chance the patient didn’t fit the physician’s preconception of an addict– he or she was a respected member of the community, for example– then the doctor often fell into the enabler role.