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I had to think back to the retreat leaders I had experienced, and remember just how much they listened to me and offered prayers, not advice.

Psychiatrists were encouraged to hold off on a diagnosis of depressive disorder until several months after such a loss.

By extension, (women’s) recovery success will positively affect communities’ (and the nation’s) health and economy.

As addiction progresses, the addict or alcoholic grows away from the larger culture from whence they came.

The most common error is to assume your program is running pretty well and will therefore get a good result on the survey.

In spite of the advances, science still struggles to understand the disease process that underlies most disorders.

In a sense we’re just describing disorders that we only partly understand.

As a general rule, the better the causes of a disease are understood, the more effective the treatments will be.

Most communities provide both options for opioid patients, and lacking a methadone for alcohol or cocaine, use a more traditional abstinence-based approach for those addictions.

What underlies these defenses is anxiety. We’re afraid of what we might find out.