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There’s always someone who is convinced that with the right support, the right technique, they could once again drink socially.

They don’t realize how effectively their actions are undermining their own goal: getting the addict into treatment.

One benefit of gender-specific rehab is the reasons for initial substance-seeking can be appropriately addressed by the treatment team and can be processed with like-minded peers.

Even in remission, the client is still an addict. The challenge is to sustain the remission, going forward.

It can be intimidating to look over the inventory, and think about sharing these shame-laden items with another real live person.

Social networking speech is protected, in the United States at least, by the same Constitution that protects other forms of speech.

He’s able to describe complex phenomena in terms that, with a little work at least, we can understand.

The idea was that the drinker would admit his sins, beg forgiveness, accept punishment, and promise to abstain from that point on.

And there’s no reliable way to tell whether addictive personality traits represent a cause or a result of addiction.

Addiction has been described as a chronic problem that we’ve attempted to treat as an acute illness –a big reason for the revolving door of relapse.