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Craving has finally been added to the symptom list. I was never entirely clear on why it wasn’t included in DSM-IV, since there’s an impressive body of research on craving measurement.

Stats are something we impose on them when there’s already another client waiting in the corridor and the charting still isn’t done.

The challenge is to develop that relationship quickly enough to engage the client and create an environment that promotes success.

The law can reflect professional ethics, but many times it does not. It’s quite possible for a certain type of conduct to be within the law and yet not meet ethical standards.

From the beginning, it was designed to be a program for living… a grass-roots approach based not on scientific research or professional practice but on the direct experience of recovering persons.

Both sides present arguments, and for the most part, those arguments depend on the separation of spirituality from religion.

One study indicated that it could take as little as 33 milliseconds to trigger a craving. If something only lasts three one-hundredths of a second, you’re probably not going to be aware of it.

Ultimately, what replaces addiction in recovery is life, in all its glory.

Something serious is wrong, and it’s not being handled at all well.

If we inadvertently activate the ‘fight-flight’ response, communication will come to a halt.