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What My Treatment Center Did Right
Treatment is a formative time for a recovering addict—the ideas that seem to save us end up staying with us.
Topics: 12Step, disease, tools for recovery
Hackmail! Protect Your Patient Data
Once in the system, a hacker can easily move from one area to another– accessing PHI on many other patients.
Topics: administration, ethics
Medication Assisted Treatment
In terms of a comfortable detox, Suboxone was a success. In terms of a return to opiate use, it was a failure.
Topics: addiction medications, harm reduction, MAT, treatment models
Fault and Blame
Rehab isn’t intended to effect a cure for someone’s addiction. We don’t have a cure for anybody’s addiction.
It’s Cheaper, But is it Better?
A former national insurance exec observed that when you work in healthcare management, most of your day is spent looking at columns of numbers.
Topics: administration, financial strategies
Social Media and Recovery
In other words, they may also be engaged in professional treatment, attending live support groups, seeking medical or mental health care, or some combination of the above.
Topics: maintaining sobriety, recovery support groups, tools for recovery