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1 (2)
A (71)
- “…and Let God Sort ’em Out”?
- “…and practice these principles in all my affairs.”
- “Addicted”? Or “dependent”?
- …And Now I Know the Rest of the Story!
- A “Plan” Isn’t Enough
- A ‘Secret’ Life
- A (Very New) Beginner’s Guide to the Disease Concept
- A Better Diagnostic Understanding of Addiction
- A Big(ger) Picture: Juvenile Crime
- A Brief Rant About the Internet
- A Heroin-ish Solution to Heroin Addiction?
- A Little Politicking
- A Model of Mental Illness
- A New ADHD Epidemic?
- A Place for Placebo?
- A Pocket of Heroin
- A Price We Can Afford
- A Problem Becomes Public
- A Sad Story That’s Sadly Common
- A Simple Plan: Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders
- A Simple Test
- A System That Could Be One
- A System That Isn’t One
- Aaieee!! Krokodil!
- About Drinking and Smoking
- About Government
- About Saying “No”
- About the Binge
- About Those Blackouts…
- Abused by Alcohol
- Acid Reflux… er, Redux
- Acing the Continued Stay Review
- Addicted to Pot
- Addiction and “Medicare for All”
- Addiction And: ASPD
- Addiction Counseling Ingredients
- Addiction Treatment via US Healthcare System: The Downside
- Addiction Treatment: The Double Standard
- Addiction, Abuse, Dependency–What’s the Difference?
- Addictive Delusions
- Addictive Disease: Why Semantics Matter — and Why They Don’t
- Adding Intervention Services
- Adding Services for Co-Occurring Disorders
- Affordable
- Agenda vs. Agenda
- Alcohol Isn’t a Health Food
- Alcohol Tax Cut
- Alcoholic Defenses
- Alcoholism in the Hospital
- Alcoholism Medications– and Alcoholics
- Alexithymia: What’s That Feeling?
- Alternatives
- Am I Being Supportive? Or Enabling?
- America’s Drug Epidemic History
- An Addiction Switch?
- And the Winner Is…
- Anonymity Dilemma
- Anonymity versus Celebrity
- Another Day, Another Opioid Lawsuit
- Another Debate, Same Subject
- Another Story of Recovery
- Another Turn of the Cycle
- Another Worry for the “Sandwich Generation”
- Antabuse Redux
- Are 12-Step Fellowships Religious?
- Are Humans “Hard-Wired” for Getting High?
- Are Recovering Counselors Better?
- Are Video Games Addictive?
- Atheology for Recovery
- Attorneys, Physicians, and Alcohol
- Avoiding the Money Relapse Trap
B (27)
- Back to Biases
- Bad Boards
- Balancing Act
- Believing in the Disease
- Beware Lookalikes
- Beyond the Barrier: Depression in Early Recovery
- Beyond the Jargon
- Big City Opioids
- Big Pharma vs. Big Pot
- Big Room, Many Doors
- Birth of an Epidemic
- Borders and Drugs
- Both Chronic, But Different: Addiction and Diabetes
- Box Wars
- Boxing
- Brain Chemistry and Addiction
- Breaking Up With Vaping
- Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption
- Build Client Decision-Making Skills With Football
- Building a Recovery-Friendly Community
- Building A Team
- Building an Ethical Culture
- Building Blocks of Motivation
- Building Content on Your Rehab Blog
- Building Your Recovery Routine
- Bupe Dreams
- Buyer Beware
C (93)
- Call the Intervention Pro?
- Calm as a Tool for Better Living
- Can Binge Drinking Make You Stupid?
- Can I Help My Boyfriend Stop Drinking?
- Can I Keep My Patients From Giving Up?
- Can Legal Cannabis Fix Vaping Illness?
- Can We Make Patient Education Work?
- Cancer, Cannabis, and the FDA
- Cannabis and Cognition
- Cannabis and Mental Health
- Cannabis and the Political Class
- Cannabis as an Opioid Addiction Treatment
- Cannabis Consequences
- Cannabis Glut
- Cannabis in Relapse
- Cannabis Marketing
- Cannabis Next
- Cannabis Treatment
- Cannabis-Related Illness
- Cannabis: The Addiction Question
- Cannabusiness Update
- Case Study: Medical Pot
- CBD Oil and Its Risks
- Celebrity Addiction
- Celebrity Testimonials
- Challenge: Motivating a Group of Court-Referred Clients
- Changing the Tipping Point
- Cheaters Do Get Caught…
- Children of the Epidemic
- Chill Breathing
- Choosing Your Rehab: 4 Success Factors
- Chrontact Has Been Made…
- Clarity
- Co-Occurring Disorders Workbook
- Coercion in Massachusetts
- Collegiate Recovery Program Study: Recovering Students Face Multiple Addictions
- Communicating With Your Recovering Loved One
- Communicating–In Spite of Cognitive Bias
- Comparing Out vs. Comparing In
- Complex Case: The Devil We Know
- Complex Trauma: A Practical Approach
- Compliance via Coercion
- Compliance via Fellowship
- Compliance via Incentives
- Compulsion
- Compulsion Versus Control
- Confirmation Bias and Counseling
- Conflict in the Treatment Workplace
- Conflict of Interest Case Study
- Confrontation
- Confrontation Without Conflict
- Consistency
- Contracting
- Contrast
- Control- And the Loss of It
- Controlling Cannabis
- Coordinates on the Recovery Map
- Corporate Blues
- Corporate Blues 2
- Corporate Expectations
- Cost Control Challenges
- Counseling Challenge: “Hardcore” Drunk Drivers
- Counseling Clients With Complex Disorders
- Counseling Effectiveness: Allegiance and Alliance
- Counseling Skills Toolkit
- Counselors vs Probation Officers
- Countering Denial
- Craving: Why We Can’t Seem to Get Enough
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 1
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 2
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 3
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 4
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 5
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 6
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 7
- Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 8
- Creating Leverage for Intervention
- Credibility
- Crime vs. Disease
- Crime- the Lifestyle
- Crisis Management Cheat Sheet
- Critical Thinking
- Cross Addiction: Is it a Myth?
- Cross-Addiction
- Cruising With Cannabis
- Crystal Ball: Cannabis Use Disorder
- Cult vs Culture
- Cultivating Calm
- Customer Satisfaction: Group vs. Individual
- Customer Service Secrets of the Stars
- Cutting Off the Cash
- Cycles
- Cynical? Or Realistic?
D (55)
- Dangerously Close to Relapse
- Dark Fentanyl
- Dayton Gets Results
- De-Escalating Parent/Child Conflict
- Debate About New Painkillers
- Decision Making in Early Recovery
- Decisions, decisions: Discharging someone for drinking or drug use
- Defense: Externalization
- Defense: Denial
- Defense: Fantasy
- Defense: Intellectualizing
- Defense: Minimizing
- Defense: Rationalization
- Demand and Supply
- Denial? Or Delusion?
- Depression Update
- Desire for Drugs
- Desperate Measures: Compulsive Video Gambling
- Deterring Drunk Driving: Do Sanctions Work?
- Deterring Drunk Driving: The Role of Treatment
- Deterring Drunk Driving: Who’s Likely to Reoffend?
- Deterring Drunk Driving: Thoughts on Designing a System
- Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
- Diagnosis: Towards Validity and Consistency
- Different Levels of Treatment: Who Gets What
- Disease Arguments: The Sequel, Remake, etc.
- Do I Have a Drinking Problem?
- Do Incentives Work?
- Do You Know What (Drugs) Your Kids Are Doing?
- Do-It-Yourself Intervention Guide
- Do-It-Yourself Repairs
- Doctors and Addiction
- Doctors in Denial
- Documenting Supervision
- Does CBD Work?
- Does Vaping Help Smokers Quit?
- Don’t Forget Denial
- Don’t Forget This About Drug Epidemics
- Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
- Drug Epidemics, Part 1
- Drug Epidemics, Part 2
- Drug Prices: ‘Invisible Hands’ Off
- Drug Prices: The Blame Game
- Drug Seeking in the ER
- Drug Sniffing Parents
- Drug Testing
- Drug Testing Blues
- Drugs and the Homeless
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Drunk Driving Debate
- DSM-5 versus DSM-IV
- DSM5 – The Great Debaters
- Dual Dilemma: The Problem of Co-Occurring Disorders
- Dual Dilemma: When Addiction & Mental Illness Combine
- DUI: Graduating Sanctions
E (24)
- Each Day a New Beginning
- Early Recovery: Twelve Pitfalls
- Easier, Softer Way
- EBP Shopping
- Edible Alert
- Effective Communication with an Addicted or Alcoholic Person
- Effective Group Design: Assumptions
- Effective Group Design: Shared Understanding pt. 1
- Effective Group Design: Shared Understanding pt. 2
- Eight Ways to Drive Yourself Nuts
- Emotional Sobriety
- Ending an Epidemic?
- Engaging Coerced DUI Clients
- Engaging Engagement
- Environment & Expectations: Do They Influence Addiction?
- Esketamine Second Thoughts
- Establishing Credibility
- Ethical Challenge
- Evaluating Antisocial Behavior: Quick Assessment Tool
- Evidence is Great, But…
- Evolution of a Disease Concept
- Examining Goals and Assumptions
- Expert Nonsense
- Extraordinary Delusions
F (26)
- Faith of a Different Sort
- Families: Getting More From 12-Step Support
- Families: On Being a Newcomer in a 12-Step Group
- Families: Why Alanon?
- Family Dynamic
- Family Inventory: Priorities and Values
- Fault and Blame
- Fear of the Disease Model
- Fentanyl Goes West
- Fighting Pseudoscience: Critical Thinking
- Filtering Stress
- Finding a Skeptical Starting Point
- Finding Evidence-Based Practices
- Finding the Best Addiction Treatment for YOUR Needs
- Finding the Right Opioid Treatment Program
- First Drink
- Five Amazing Life Lessons Recovery Taught Me
- Five Natural Stress-Busters for Recovery
- Five Reasons to Hate AA
- Five Things NOT to Say to Someone With Addiction
- Florida’s Compulsory Treatment Law
- Focus on Demand
- Forgotten But Not Gone: Other Highs
- Four Ways to Refresh Your Website
- Functioning on Heroin?
- Fundraising 101
G (17)
- Gabapentin
- Gaining Compliance
- Ganja Glut
- Genetic Marker for Alcoholism
- Genetics of Heavy Drinking and Alcoholism
- Getting a Good Night’s Sleep in Early Recovery
- Getting Drugs From Docs Part One: The Manipulators
- Getting Drugs From Docs Part Three: Prevention
- Getting Drugs From Docs Part Two: The Targets
- Going to Pot
- Good and Bad Advice at 12 Step Meetings
- Good Practice Over Bad Habit
- Gratitude: From Platitude to Attitude
- Groups That Don’t Work pt 1
- Groups That Don’t Work pt 2
- Groups That Work: Climate
- Groups That Work: Values
H (31)
- Hackmail! Protect Your Patient Data
- HALT-ing Relapse Before it Starts
- Happy Customers
- Heavy Users
- Hedging His Bet
- Helping a Chronic Relapser
- Helping Family Members Recover
- Helping Memory-Impaired Clients
- Helping Staff Manage Boundaries
- Hep C Outbreak
- Heroin Assisted Treatment
- Heroin Commercial
- Heroin in Vietnam
- Hidden Agendas
- Hidden Withdrawal
- High Strength Cannabis
- Hiring for Success
- Hiring the Right People
- Hitting Bottom
- HIV Mini-Epidemic
- Holidays Step by Step
- Horror Story
- Hospital Follies
- How AA Works
- How Alcoholics Change: A Different Paradigm
- How Come Outcomes?
- How Craving Works
- How Easy am I to Manipulate?
- How to Forget
- How to Lower Inpatient Dropout Rates
- Humility Ain’t for Wimps
I (106)
- “Invisible” Hand? Or “Absent” Hand?
- “It’s Baa-ack…” (Cocaine)
- I Think Maybe I Made a Mistake
- I’m Ready to Call a Family Interventionist
- Ideology Wars
- If You’re Really Recovering, Why Do You Need AA?
- In Again, Out Again
- In Luxury’s Lap
- In the News (again… still…): Pill Mills
- In The News: 56 Recommendations and Nothing On
- In the News: A Roundup
- In the News: A Truly Costly Epidemic
- In the News: Adderall Angst
- In the News: Anatomy of a Scam
- In the News: Big Pharma’s Addiction Profits
- In the News: Blue Light Special
- In the News: Border Walls?
- In the News: Bupe Implants
- In the News: Care about CARA
- In the News: Death Penalty
- In the News: Disasters and Opioid Treatment
- In the News: Do Safe Injection Sites Work?
- In the News: Drug Epidemics and Confusing the Issues
- In the News: Drug War Ceasefire?
- In the News: Drug War Reboot?
- In the News: DUI, Cannabis-Style
- In the News: Epidemic Update
- In the News: Fading Flakka
- In the News: Fentanyl Epidemic
- In the News: Flying High in Silicon Valley
- In the News: Going Postal
- In the News: Harm Reduction in West Virginia
- In the News: Heroin Deaths Surpass Gun-Related Deaths
- In the News: Hitler’s Heroin
- In the News: K2 in New Haven
- In the News: Kaos Around Kratom
- In the News: Keeping It Covered
- In the News: Kratom
- In the News: Lobbying for Meth Cooks
- In the News: Magical Mushrooms
- In the News: Medicaid Work Requirements
- In the News: Medical Cannabis in PA
- In the News: Medical vs. Recreational Cannabis
- In the News: Merchant Princes
- In the News: Notes from the Epidemic
- In the News: Opioid Addiction and the Private Sector
- In the News: Opioid Addiction Vaccine?
- In the News: Opioid Epidemic “Fixes” vs. Strategy
- In the News: Opioid Prescriptions Drop
- In the News: Opioid Windfall
- In the News: Opioids versus Other Options
- In the News: Pain Pill Busts
- In the News: Painkiller Control
- In the News: Polypharmacy and Tom Petty
- In the News: Pot in Pueblo
- In the News: Prince’s Pain
- In the News: Prince’s Pills
- In the News: Purdue Knew
- In the News: Return of the Gateway Theory
- In the News: Russian Drinking
- In the News: Sex Addiction Again…
- In the News: Spit in the Ocean
- In the News: Stoned Driving
- In the News: The “Affluenza” Case
- In the News: The End of a Pill Mill
- In the News: The FDA in Action?
- In the News: The Fentanyl Factor
- In the News: The Human Element
- In the News: The Kratom Debate
- In the News: The Opioid Commission Speaks
- In the News: Update on Prince
- In the News: Updates From the Epidemics
- In the News: Video Gambling
- In the News: Who Gets Narcan?
- Individualizing Treatment With Alternative Therapies
- Inpatient Management: Dealing with the Tempests in the Teapot
- Insomnia: The Medication Dilemma
- Interdiction Two-Step
- Intervener Basics
- Intervention
- Intervention and Publicly Funded Rehab
- Intervention at the ER, Part 2
- Intervention at the ER? Can it Work?
- Intervention From the Inside
- Intervention with a professional present?
- Intervention: Dealing With the “What ifs”
- Introducing Newcomers to 12-Step Fellowship
- Introduction to Intervention: You Can Do It
- Intrusive Thoughts
- Is a Good Intervention Dramatic?
- Is Cannabis Addictive?
- Is GHB Next?
- Is it a ‘reason’ or an ‘excuse’?
- Is it Recovery Yet?
- Is it Treatment Failure or Relapse?
- Is LSD Going to Cure Alcoholism?
- Is MAT Enough?
- Is Relapse a Crime?
- Is There a Cure?
- Is there an “alcoholic/addictive” personality?
- Is This “Recovery?”
- Is Treatment “Successful”?
- Is Your Loved One With Alcoholism Already Considering Change?
- Is Your Therapy Dull?
- It’s Cheaper, But is it Better?
- It’s Time to Retire “Behavioral Health”
J (1)
K (1)
L (13)
- Landing On Your Feet
- Language and Labeling
- Leaving Rehab: Seven Tips
- Legalization and Addiction
- Legalization’s Impact on Cannabis Use Disorders (CUD)
- Legalize Synthetics?
- Lessons Learned?
- Life Without Opioids
- Lifestyle Balance Model for Recovery
- Lowering “First Week” ASA Rates
- Lowering Your Residential ASA Rate: A Practical Guide
- LSD in the UK
- LSD Science Update
M (44)
- Maintenance Dilemma
- Making Good Decisions
- Making Phone Contacts More Meaningful (Marketing)
- Managing Clinician Stress
- Managing Rehab Program Census
- Mandated vs. Voluntary Treatment
- Material Clients Can’t (or Won’t) Read Doesn’t Help Them
- Medical Cannabis
- Medical Cannabis in Addiction Treatment
- Medical Cannabis Laws and Addiction
- Medical Cannabis: A Review
- Medical Cannabis: Research Update
- Medical Manipulation
- Medicalizing Cannabis
- Medication Assisted Treatment
- Memory by Function
- Mental Health and Gun Violence
- Mental Illness: The Dilemma of Diagnosis
- Meth Making a Comeback
- Methadone for Chronic Pain?
- Methadone Maintenance and Crime
- Methadone Maintenance Plus
- Microdosers
- Mindfulness
- Miracle Max
- Mission Not Accomplished
- Models of Addiction: The Medical Model
- Models of Addiction: The Moderation Model
- Models of Addiction: The Psychoanalytic Model
- Models of Addiction: The Temperance Model
- Models of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
- Modern Medicine(s)
- More on Lobbying
- More on Medicaid Requirements
- More on Mental Illness: Genetics
- More Politics of Pot
- Motivation vs. Unmotivation
- Movies About Alcoholism
- Music Hath Charms
- My Counselors are Being Manipulated!
- My husband quit drinking, but he’s still not himself.
- My Kid Can’t Be Addicted: Family Defenses
- My Life in Recovery
- Myth or Not?
N (16)
- Naloxone Fatigue
- Naltrexone versus Opioids
- NarCan’t?
- Nature or Nurture?
- Nature vs. Nurture Again
- Needle Exchange Backlash
- Negotiating With Ourselves
- New Approaches for Chronic Pain
- New CDC Guidelines for Opioid Prescription
- New Club Drugs
- New Life, New You, New Job
- No Warm Reception
- No, It Wasn’t the Pain
- Nonbelievers Moral Inventory
- Not-So-Early Recovery
- Notes From the Epidemic
O (30)
- Oh– as for Fentanyl…
- Oliver on Opioids
- On Its Way (or Already Here): Hash Oil
- On the Fentanyl Front…
- One Man’s Recovery
- Online: The Power of 24/7 Fellowship
- Open the Buprenorphine Tap?
- Opening the Pipeline: ADHD
- Opioid Addiction and Probation: Effective Support
- Opioid Alternatives
- Opioid Disorders and Depression
- Opioid Epidemic Budget Exercise
- Opioid Evangelism
- Opioid Maintenance: Life Sentence?
- Opioid Medication Therapy and Continued Use
- Opioid Prescribing in an Opioid Epidemic
- Opioid Prescription Laws
- Opioid Settlements?
- Opioid Vulnerability
- Opioids and Mental Health Diagnoses
- Opioids and the Assumption of Failure
- Opioids for Pain Relief? It Depends…
- Opioids in Cars
- Opioids in India
- Opioids in International Relations
- Our Intervention Got Ratted Out!
- Outcome vs. Impact
- Outpatient Follies
- Outpatient vs. Intensive Outpatient
- Overdose Fatality Trends
P (50)
- Pain Conundrum
- Pain Pill Cycle
- Pain Psychology
- Pain Treatment for Those Battling Opioid Dependence
- Pain: Sensation or Emotion?
- Painkillers, from Two Sides
- Pathways: From the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery
- Patient Education 101
- Patient Education: Powerful Tool for Program Success
- Perception or Deception?
- Perp or Victim?
- Persuasion in Prevention
- Pharmaceutical “Cures”
- Pharmacology to the Rescue?
- Philosopher’s Stone
- Physician Pitfalls
- Pills by Default
- Pills, Pills, and More Pills
- Political Cover
- Politics and Drugs
- Politics and Pharmacy
- Politics, Money, and Addiction Treatment
- Polypharmacy Overdose
- Pot and the NFL Draft
- Pot in Rehab
- Pot Potency
- Practical Advice for Parents: Prescription Painkiller Abuse
- Practical Advice on Prescription Painkillers
- Practice or Practitioner?
- Practice versus Knowledge
- Predicting Success in Groups
- Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt 1
- Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt. 2
- Prescription ProTips for Physicians
- Pressure Points
- Preventing Adolescent Cannabis Abuse
- Prison as a Strategy
- Proactive is the Key
- Professional Development Plan
- Professional Intervention
- Professional Versus Not
- Professionally Suspicious: Clinicians & Recovery Fellowships
- Professionals and Addiction
- Profound Influence
- Prognosis
- Prohibition Paradox
- Proposing a Plan
- Psychedelia
- Psychonautics
- Putting Off Reality
Q (1)
R (57)
- “Research Says…”
- ‘Responsible’ Dabbing?
- Raising the Tobacco Age Limit
- Re-Engineering Recovery Tools
- Recidivism Trap
- Recognizing Depression
- Recognizing Enabling Behaviors
- Recognizing Unresolved Grief
- Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction
- Recovery Anxiety
- Recovery at Christmas
- Recovery at Work
- Recovery Homes
- Recovery Maintenance Tip: Avoid Casinos
- Recovery Reality
- Recovery SI Gets a Makeover!
- Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Step Seven
- Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Step Ten
- Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Steps 4, 5 and 6
- Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Steps 8 & 9
- Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: The First Three Steps
- Recovery Without God
- Recovery Works for EVERYONE
- RecoverySI’s Sober Blogroll
- Reducing Harm vs… Well, Reducing Harm
- Reducing Opioid Prescriptions
- Reducing Outpatient No-Shows
- Rehab Soundbyte: Cookie Power
- Rehab Soundbyte: Determined Mom
- Rehab Soundbyte: Drinker’s Dilemma
- Rehab Soundbyte: Everything But Abstinence
- Rehab Soundbyte: Vintage Resentment
- Rehab Soundbyte: Flight Delay
- Rehab Soundbytes
- Relapse After Longterm Sobriety
- Relapse and Addiction Policy
- Relapse is Not Failure
- Relapse Traps Inventory
- Relapse: What Threatens My Sobriety
- Relaxing in Recovery
- Requisition for an Alcoholism Cure
- Research Blues: Correlation versus Causation
- Resetting Your Triggers
- Resolution or Resolve?
- Responding to an Epidemic: Narcan
- Restorative Justice for Big Pharma?
- Retention
- Retrain Your Brain: Scripting
- Revisiting the Politics of Painkillers
- Revolving Cell Doors
- Risky Decision Case Study: Quarterback Derby
- Rogue Pharmacies
- Root Cause
- Routines for Living Recovery
- Running for Recovery
- Running, But Not on Empty
- Rural Areas and ASAM Criteria
S (54)
- “S/he Did it AGAIN?” Repeat DUI Offenders
- “Stay Tuned”
- Scheduling Drugs
- Science vs. Science
- Searching for a Substitute
- Secondhand Drinking
- Secretary for Drug Crises?
- Self-Induced Mindset
- Selling Pills
- Seniors With Addiction Have Special Needs
- Setting Boundaries: The Initial Meeting
- Setting Boundaries: Understanding Your Client’s Agenda
- Seven Tips for Getting Started Right With AA
- Shame
- Shopping for Treatment
- Should I Stay or Leave?
- Should the U.S. Legalize Drugs?
- Simon Pegg’s Story
- Six Things You Can Do While Your Loved One’s in Treatment
- Skunked
- Sleep Better in Early Recovery
- Slips and How to Avoid Them
- Smoking Addiction
- Snake Oil
- Sober Again in Margaritaville
- Sober at the Wedding
- Sobriety: A Graphic Novel
- Social Drinking? Problem Drinking?
- Social Media and Recovery
- Social Networking and Recovery Services
- Solid at the Core
- Some Observations on Mental Health Diagnosis
- Some Observations on Mental Illness
- Spontaneous Remission?
- Statute of Limitations
- Stemming the Tide: Vaping
- Stigma Behind the Stethoscope
- Stigma in the Bigger Picture
- Stigma Keeps People From Seeking Help
- Stigma Makes People Feel Inferior
- Stigma: Overcoming the Effects
- Stimulants Today
- Stoned Voter Effect?
- Stop Thinking Like Thatalso at Amazon
- Strange Bedfellows in the Pharma Lobby
- Striking a Cannabis Balance
- Stronger Together: Addiction Group Treatment
- Suboxone and Overdose
- Success in the Marketplace
- Sure, “set boundaries.” How?
- Surviving Program Surveys
- Sustain the Gain
- Synergism Strikes
- Synthetic Marijuana: A Brief Look
T (126)
- “The Real Reasons”?
- “The War On…”
- “The Wire” and Children of Addiction
- “They’ll See Me Going To Your Program”
- Taking Action: Analyze Past Flaws
- Taking Action: Know the Enemy
- Taking Action: Review the Defenses
- Taking Charge by Having Faith
- Taking the Fifth
- Tapering off Anti-Depressants
- Teachers Reduce Addiction Risk!
- Teens: Cannabis and Vaping Up; Cigarettes Down
- Ten Steps to a Strategic Plan
- THC and CBD
- The “Party School” Problem
- The “Rules” About Drugs
- The 12-Step Success Rate
- The Active and the Passive
- The Ad Biz
- The Advice Trap
- The Alcoholic Person’s Friend
- The Anger Trap
- The Biology of Anxiety
- The Blame Game
- The Bullying Game
- The Business of Cures
- The Cannabis Cure?
- The Cannabis Debate
- The Captagon Craze in the Middle East
- The Challenge of the Repeat Offense Drunk Driver
- The Church of the Exalted Chemical
- The Colors of Serenity
- The Compliance Problem
- The Conditioning Trap
- The Culture of Drug Use
- The Damage Assessment
- The Defenses We’ll Face
- The Disease Debate
- The Drugs/Crime Axis
- The EBP Conundrum
- The Empire Strikes Back
- The End for Patient Brokers
- The Epidemic Rolls On…
- The Exact Wrong Thing
- The Family That Recovers Together
- The FDA and Pediatric Oxycontin
- The Five Percent Meme
- The Ghost of DUIs Past
- The Grief Exception
- The Habit of Hiding
- The Innovation Shopper
- The Inoculation Effect
- The Intervention Tipping Point
- The Journey of the Heroic Parent
- The Labels We Use
- The Last Dose
- The Maintenance Biz
- The Malibu Mindset
- The March of Pseudoscience
- The Medicine They Don’t Take…
- The Mighty Commitment
- The Miracle Herb
- The Monitoring Model
- The More Things Change…
- The Motivated Reasoning Paradox
- The Natural History of Recovery: CoDisorders
- The Natural History of Recovery: One Youth’s Experience
- The New Herbalists
- The New Moralists
- The Next Epidemic: CUD
- The NFL’s Incentive to Addiction
- The NIH, Corporate Sponsors, and Research
- The OD Epidemic Continues…
- The Pain Patient Population
- The Pain Patients’ Dilemma
- The Pill Mill Shell Game
- The Politics of Painkillers
- The Pot Docs
- The Pot Wars Continue
- The Power of Denial
- The Power of Loss Aversion
- The Power of Mindfulness
- The Practitioner vs. the Technique
- The Price Shopper
- The Professional as Target: Being Manipulated
- The Public Trust
- The Quick Change Artists
- The Readiness is All
- The Relationship Shopper
- The Rescuer’s Plight: Avoiding the Enabling Trap
- The Rumor Mill: “Killer Rehab”?
- The Search for Better Pain Remedies
- The Sermon on the Mount
- The Stress Toolbox
- The Struggle to Maintain
- The Study of Pain
- The Vape Ban That Wasn’t
- The Vaping Dilemma
- The View Depends on Where You Stand
- The War Within
- The Wave Phenomenon
- Theory
- There’s a Dead Skunk Under Your State…
- Three Basic Questions
- Three Challenges
- Tips on Improving Addictions Education
- To Maintain or Not to Maintain?
- To Mom, With Love- Your Addict Son
- Tobacco Cessation Workbook
- Tools for Recovery
- Tossing the Playbook
- Tragic and Costly: DUI/DWI
- Trapped: Helping Clients Avoid Relapse
- Trauma and Memory
- Treating the Antisocial Addict: Treatment Planning
- Treating the Juvenile Offender
- Treating Young Opioid Users: Residential vs. Outpatient?
- Treatment and Coercion
- Treatment Outcomes: Does it Work?
- Treatment Plan Redux
- Trends in Cannabis Consumption
- Tricky Opioid Payouts
- Truth Comes Out
- Turning Off the Anxiety Switch
- Twenty-Eight Days
- Two Perspectives on Pain
U (15)
- “Uninformed” versus “Misinformed”
- Understanding Objections to 12 Step Groups
- Understanding Opioid Potency
- Understanding Research: Meta-analysis
- Unplugging From the Chaos
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 1
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 2
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 3
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 4
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 5
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 6
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 7
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 8
- Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 9
V (10)
- Vagaries of Vaping
- Vaillant and the Long Term View of Relapse
- Vaping Disease
- Vaping Goes Pro
- Video Calm?
- Video Presentation: How to Talk so an Alcoholic Will Listen
- Video: Can I Help an Alcoholic Change?
- Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
- Video: The Art of Intervention
- Viral Pot
W (59)
- “Weak” Evidence for Prescription Opioid Effectiveness
- Waiting (and Waiting…) for Inpatient Beds
- Walls and Fences
- War For Drugs
- War Within
- We All Need Boundaries
- Weird Science
- What ‘Empathy’ Means
- What IS a “Recovery-Friendly” Community?
- What is a “Safe” Drinking Level?
- What is a Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD)?
- What is Trauma?
- What Keeps Alcoholic and Addicted People From Getting Help
- What KIND of Disease is Addiction?
- What Makes a Good Interventionist?
- What Makes a Successful Treatment Program
- What My Treatment Center Did Right
- What to do After Treatment
- What to Expect From Counseling
- What to Look for in a Sponsor
- What Works in Recovery
- When Alcohol Pays for Research
- When It’s Just Business
- When Pot Becomes Legal…
- When Shame Would Help
- When You Love a Shapeshifter
- Where Goals and Effectiveness Meet
- Who’s Looking Out for You?
- Who’s to Blame?
- Whose Fault Is It, Anyway?
- Whose Life is it, Anyway?
- Why Addicted People Manipulate
- Why Addiction is a Family Disease
- Why Alcoholic People Resist Help
- Why Didn’t Our Intervention Work?
- Why Do Alcoholics Drink?
- Why Do We Keep Losing Bids?
- Why Don’t Physicians Refer People for Treatment?
- Why Enabling?
- Why Gender-Specific Rehab?
- Why Intervention Works
- Why No Opioid Taper?
- Why Slogans?
- Why Some Programs Succeed: A Marketing Approach
- Why They Quit
- Why We Can’t Trust the Healthcare System to Regulate Itself
- Why We Don’t Learn From Experience
- Why You Can’t Stop Someone Else From Drinking or Drugging
- Why Zero Tolerance Fails
- Will Spirituality Work for This Counselor?
- Will This Client Follow Directions?
- Winning Public Substance Abuse Services Contracts
- Withdrawal Dilemma
- Witnessing
- Women and Men: Different Experiences of Recovery
- Word of Warning
- Working the Program
- Working the Steps
- Worldwide Epidemic
