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:
Pain: Sensation or Emotion?
…optimally, the goal isn’t just to get different specialists to work together, it’s to educate all practitioners to address the patient with awareness of both perspectives.
Topics: opioids, pain, prescription medications
Opioids in Cars
The research team examined 24 years of cases and concluded the impairment was attributable to opioids.
How to Forget
Suppose we could develop cognitive techniques and train the patient to use them whenever symptoms reappeared?
Topics: addiction and the brain, early recovery, research
LSD Science Update
The relative importance of set and setting suggests that the environment in an LSD experience should be carefully controlled.
Topics: hallucinogens, research
What to do After Treatment
There will be times where you catch yourself lying either in your head or to somebody– fix it, there is major growth there when you do.
Topics: early recovery, maintaining sobriety
The Pot Wars Continue
I think the problem is I have read the research, and it didn’t confirm the claims made on its behalf.
LSD in the UK
I recall several cases admitted to the inpatient psych ward at one hospital where I worked in Boston, usually with severe psychotic symptoms.
Topics: hallucinogens
Chrontact Has Been Made…
Now, with legalization, “cannabusiness” is being commercialized along the lines of alcohol and tobacco.
Topics: cannabis
A Price We Can Afford
Investors naturally seek to increase the value of their investment, while patients seek access to medication they need at a price they can afford.
Topics: prescription medications