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:
Requisition for an Alcoholism Cure
Please get back to us as soon as you’ve perfected this cure. We can promise you massive profits, guaranteed.
Topics: abstinence, addiction medications, alcoholism
Another Debate, Same Subject
The coffee is just not that tasty. Yet they were getting something out of it that was important to them.
Topics: 12Step, maintaining sobriety, tools for recovery
Counseling Clients With Complex Disorders
…progress is the measuring stick. You want your patient to know the joy of a structured, purposeful life.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, counseling skills
What Makes a Successful Treatment Program
Lose the community’s confidence in our ability to provide a safe, secure environment for their loved ones, and it’s over.
Topics: administration, program development, Why Some Programs Succeed
Resolution or Resolve?
What I like about resolve is that it has no sell-by date. Resolve focuses on progress, not perfection.
Topics: behavior modification, maintaining sobriety, physical health
Recidivism Trap
As if he were proud of it — as if his list of treatment ‘failures’ represented a weird sort of achievement.
Topics: enabling and provoking, maintaining sobriety, relapse
Understanding Objections to 12 Step Groups
This is also an opportunity to work on an all-important issue in early recovery: personal boundaries.
Topics: 12Step, Alcoholics Anonymous, discharge planning, maintaining sobriety
To Maintain or Not to Maintain?
You know what would help put an end to the debate? A protocol and procedures for a successful transition off maintenance for those patients who would prefer not to remain dependent.
Topics: addiction medications, MAT, opioids, treatment models
The Five Percent Meme
People attend AA for a variety of reasons, in different stages of readiness, and with diverse objectives in mind.
Topics: 12Step, Alcoholics Anonymous, outcomes, recovery support groups, relapse, research