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By the time the family gets around to taking action, conditions in the addict’s life have already reached the point where there’s a certain incentive to change.

The experience of addiction routinely includes periods of reduced substance use, or abstinence.

Heroin is certainly an addictive substance, so why didn’t all the subjects continue using it?

It’s the stigma that creates the distinction, not the distinction that creates the stigma.

“If you can’t measure something, you can’t do science with it, and in addictions, we just can’t measure things as well as we need to.”

I’m told that less than half of contemporary medical practice is actually rooted in evidence.

Some observers have criticized us for orienting treatment methods to more severe cases, but that’s predominantly who we see in many forms of treatment.

Project Match has long been held up as demonstrating the efficacy of three very different approaches.

There are many concepts in clinical psychology that are not science-based, but are nonetheless still of use in therapy.

We might have been making things more difficult for the patients we wanted to help. This is not unknown in healthcare.