Thinking About Addiction

The fewer services you provide, the fewer staff you need, and the more likely you are to have a healthy profit margin.

Most people who enact laws aren’t healthcare experts or even for that matter particularly interested in the subject of addiction and treatment.

Nobody knows exactly how extensive off label prescribing is, but estimates range from a fifth of all prescriptions written in the US, to a third if we just look at psychiatric meds.

We develop habits and routines that seem to have a life of their own– and you’re never more aware of that than when you go to change them.

In some communities, where resources are few, the only way to access residential services is by getting arrested and sent by the Court.

It makes perfect sense to do something that’s been shown to be effective at limiting one very important adverse consequence to the individual and society

I was reading about a dramatic increase in cases of Hepatitis C in Maine, a state that, like the rest of the Northeast, has been (continued…)

Those misconceptions are a principal reason so many Americans have become skeptical of the value of treating addictions at all.

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