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:
“They’ll See Me Going To Your Program”
The family is operating under the misconception that folks in their town don’t know, when they already do.
Topics: family dysfunction, family involvement, stigma, toxic relationships
The Disease Debate
“We’re still stuck at the problem of definition. Until we agree on that, I don’t know how we can resolve it.” And not surprisingly, we didn’t.
Topics: disease, disease model
Helping Memory-Impaired Clients
Topics: addiction and the brain, assessment, barriers to recovery, consequences, counseling skills
Can Binge Drinking Make You Stupid?
Effects on learning and memory appear particularly important when the drinking occurred during adolescence, an ‘accelerated learning period’ for most of us.
Topics: addiction and the brain, alcohol, binge drinking, disease
Why Do Alcoholics Drink?
If you’re happy with your program of recovery, find another therapist who believes in letting the client direct the course of therapy.
Topics: alcoholism, diagnosis, disease, disease model, models of addiction, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Alcoholism in the Hospital
The medical professions have been dealing with alcoholism and alcoholics for thousands of years, and this experience has led to some pretty hard and fast views on the subject.
Topics: alcoholism, detoxification, disease, health care, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt. 2
It’s glib, deceptive, self-serving and futile to address what the CDC has described as an epidemic, by finger-pointing.
Topics: health care, opioids, physicians, prescription medications
The “Party School” Problem
Topics: adolescent addiction, binge drinking, consequences, legal problems