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:
Pain Conundrum
It takes thirty seconds to write a prescription… that fits very well into a scheduled 15 minute office visit.
Topics: mortality, opioids, pain
Treating Young Opioid Users: Residential vs. Outpatient?
Topics: MAT, opioids, research, types of treatment
Research Blues: Correlation versus Causation
Problem is, we in the general public don’t like being made to wait. We want answers, and we want them to be final.
Topics: bad information, research
Going to Pot
Clients who struggle to stay drug-free can resent the presence in group of others who openly use substances.
Topics: cannabis, compliance and noncompliance, program development
Corporate Blues 2
Some schedule periodic onsite visits that one wag compared to a pterodactyl circling overhead screaming at the ground before flying off again.
Topics: administration, financial strategies, program development
Corporate Blues
For instance, a business that isn’t meeting investor expectations might decide to launch an aggressive marketing campaign without a corresponding increase in staff.
Topics: financial strategies, systems
A Pocket of Heroin
Chimayo and surrounding Rio Arriba County have long struggled with heroin overdose rates that exceed ten times the national average.
Topics: epidemiology, heroin, opioids
Faith of a Different Sort
True religious fanaticism is, in my experience, quite different from the sort of spiritual practice we find in most 12 Step groups.
Topics: 12Step, spirituality
More on Lobbying
As one longtime Capitol Hill figure told me, “you can get anything accomplished as long as you’re willing to share the credit– especially with those who don’t deserve it.”
Topics: advocacy