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A shorter stay is cheaper and less disruptive to your life, but 90 day programs give you more time to master the skills of recovery.

The way addicts and alcoholics themselves talk about their condition (“an emotional disease,” “a parasite the feeds on our emotions”, “an emotional cancer,” “a fear based disease”) is rarely considered in theories of addiction.

While it may have similarities to other disorders, the emotional dysregulation that characterizes addiction is not the same.

Is there a disparity between what you can observe and what the patient reports?

12 Step literature suggests that sponsors stick with advice on how to work the Steps, rather than stray into realms better left to trained professionals.

Of course a blog has one big down side: You have to keep feeding it, like Moloch, with new content.

Some of the adverse effects reported by K2 and Spice users are no doubt related to unidentified substances that adulterate the product.

At the end of each day, make a list of what went right. Focus on that rather than the things that didn’t.

The busier the doc, the easier to manipulate. And there’s continuing downward pressure from practice managers to see more patients in less time.

And now there’s the emergence of ‘tip sites’ on the Internet, dedicated to turning the reader into a better-prepared, more successful drug-seeker.