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The traits we should be looking for may be missing from (or underemphasized in) the job description.

This is not about results. It’s about attention. Our clients want to feel as if somebody’s actually listening to them.

When you give in to panic, you find yourself with two problems rather than one: The thing that’s scaring you, and the fact that you’re panicky and can’t reason clearly.

It’s not hard to see how the combination could result in retirees with serious, life threatening drug problems.

We spend a great deal of time in treatment seeking to increase patient motivation, but these programs do not rely on a motivated patient.

Mike Golic, a former pro football player, was asked to recall his five best-ever performances. He couldn’t. “Ask me about my five worst games,” he countered.

It also suggests that the ‘return to heroin’ rate among former maintenance clients may be even higher.

Somebody who shows up six months later, sick, asking for another admission to the hospital, is in their eyes a failure.

The system here isn’t designed to help a sick addict get off (and stay off) alcohol and drugs. It’s designed to process people in accordance with the expectations of society.

Nobody should have known about this in the first place. Somebody broke Josh’s confidentiality, and sources within the team are a prime suspect.