We have four blogs on our site, each with its own focus:

HTT-Fam

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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HTT-Clin

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

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

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:

Medicalizing Cannabis

September 18, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

We’re already a society at risk of drowning in sciencey-sounding flapdoodle.

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Drug Epidemics, Part 1

September 15, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

Drug epidemics, like other epidemics, follow a reasonably predictable pattern.

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The Labels We Use

September 11, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

Having that particular label implies– the need to make a number of important changes in lifestyle that the patient frankly doesn’t feel like making.

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DUI: Graduating Sanctions

September 8, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

A first offense can actually represent the product of a longstanding, well-established pattern of behavior.

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Prognosis

September 4, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

Patients are often afraid to ask, but when they do, they seem to want the truth.

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Polypharmacy Overdose

September 1, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

No question that combining or ‘stacking’ these substances, illegal and/or prescription, increases the risk for unintended OD.

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Genetic Marker for Alcoholism

August 28, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

There would presumably be a real advantage to a genetic profile that pinpointed those at special risk for alcoholism

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The Cannabis Debate

August 25, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

If you managed to turn 18 without at least some experimentation, people will assume there’s something wrong with you.

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Call the Intervention Pro?

August 21, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

if some members of your team have become hesitant, mired in doubt, lost their motivation– then you want the professional with you.

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Addiction Treatment via US Healthcare System: The Downside

August 4, 2014 by C. Scott McMillin

The reality is that if we’d had to rely solely on the healthcare system, a lot of people who are in recovery today would simply never have made it.

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