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Informed client choice means accurate information about the likely outcome of decisions made early in treatment.

Instead of becoming inspired to turn his life around, he seems to have figured, “OK, crisis averted. Let’s go get a beer.”

It isn’t that big a challenge; you simply add a basic questionnaire on the subject to your intake paperwork.

There’s hope. Partly because the effects of repeated treatments tend to be cumulative — most patients are learning something important from each.

“If my intentions are good,” they think to themselves, “how can my actions be unprofessional?”

Recovery-friendly communities encourage education, provide support for open communications, and reject assumptions that perpetuate stigma.

Like many rural areas, Taos County sees high rates of shockingly young students taking to heroin and alcohol. And like most of New Mexico, infrastructure and resources are stretched thin.

We’re competitive on price and have all the required services, but for some reason the award goes elsewhere.

If we could reach them now, the process might well be interrupted. Preventing a host of more serious problems — some of them fatal to other people, or the user himself.

It may help in understanding how the problems that plague some of us throughout life may have come about. And hopefully, in doing so, remove a bit the shame and stigma that often accompanies such problems.