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:
Teachers Reduce Addiction Risk!
This is the first data-driven study which shows that teacher support is associated with lower levels of early alcohol use.
Topics: adolescent addiction, risk factors
Another Worry for the “Sandwich Generation”
For these and other common procedures referred to in the study, we might not even know what the doctor prescribes Mom or Dad afterward.
Topics: prescription medications, recognizing addiction, risk factors, seniors
Lowering “First Week” ASA Rates
Crisis motivates addicts to seek treatment. But the addict’s motivation to remain in treatment decreases as he feels better.
Topics: administration, ASA Rate, client census, client engagement and motivation, clinical management
Engaging Coerced DUI Clients
First, they don’t understand why they’re in treatment, or how it could possibly benefit them. Second, they’re ticked off about having been coerced.
Topics: addicted offenders, client engagement and motivation, client types and needs, DUI/DWI, groups, legal problems
Intervention and Publicly Funded Rehab
Explain your situation and make a request: You want your nephew’s name placed on the admissions list for a date beyond the current waiting list.
Topics: finding the right treatment, intervention, Intervention Series, negotiation, referral
Adding Intervention Services
Families are always complaining about the lack of good, affordable intervention assistance out there (depending on where you live, of course)
Topics: intervention, marketing, program development
Material Clients Can’t (or Won’t) Read Doesn’t Help Them
It’s not so much that the client is unable to grasp the info as he or she is easily discouraged based on a fund of previous negative experiences in school.
Topics: client engagement and motivation, cognitive behavioral therapy, patient education, therapeutic models, therapies and tools
Are Humans “Hard-Wired” for Getting High?
I think the continuing popularity of substance use through the ages is because in practical terms, substances work.
Topics: addiction and the brain, hallucinogens, opioids
Sure, “set boundaries.” How?
With some people, it’s better not to answer,because they’ll just argue with you anyway. In that case, smile and depart the scene.
Topics: boundaries, co dependency, toxic relationships
Is LSD Going to Cure Alcoholism?
The Norwegian study is part of an ongoing effort to restore the right of researchers to conduct studies involving therapeutic uses of LSD.
Topics: alcohol, alcoholism, hallucinogens, research