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It was never really about the job, or an article in Time, or anything except his own fervent desire to keep drinking and prove everyone else wrong.

Many treatment programs moved away from medication precisely because it wasn’t helping.

If Project MATCH had it right, and all three work but none works significantly better than the others– then what’s all the argument about?

Pundits are always telling us that science proves this or that, but when we look closer, we find it proves neither.

Many clinicians don’t view addiction as a disease, which they believe relieves them of the need to learn much about its pathophysiology.

Look what’s happened to the public image of rehab as a result of those awful high-profile celeb incidents.

One characteristic of Delta FosB is its unusual stability. It’s capable of persisting in the brain for a very long time.

There’s plenty of evidence that treatment for depression works, and that people with co-occurring disorders can and do get a whole lot better.

Few clinicians believed that street crack addicts could succeed as outpatients, but the demand for residential care was never fully met because of, you know, budget considerations.

It makes us uncomfortable to acknowledge that degree of helplessness.