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:
The Labels We Use
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.
DUI: Graduating Sanctions
A first offense can actually represent the product of a longstanding, well-established pattern of behavior.
Topics: consequences, criminal courts, DUI/DWI
Polypharmacy Overdose
No question that combining or ‘stacking’ these substances, illegal and/or prescription, increases the risk for unintended OD.
Topics: alcohol, consequences, mortality, prescription medications
Genetic Marker for Alcoholism
There would presumably be a real advantage to a genetic profile that pinpointed those at special risk for alcoholism
Topics: alcoholism, research
The Cannabis Debate
If you managed to turn 18 without at least some experimentation, people will assume there’s something wrong with you.
Topics: cannabis
Call the Intervention Pro?
if some members of your team have become hesitant, mired in doubt, lost their motivation– then you want the professional with you.
Topics: getting help, intervention
Addiction Treatment via US Healthcare System: The Downside
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.
Topics: alcoholism, health care