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In Luxury’s Lap
The goal is for patients to receive quality care regardless of where they happen to land in the treatment system.
Topics: finding the right treatment, marketing
Addictive Delusions
A reasonably good rule of thumb for differentiating results of substance addiction from other illnesses: When the substance use stops for an extended period, the symptoms improve dramatically or go away entirely.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, signs and symptoms
Depression Update
Patients with severe substance disorders may experience depression as a result of the cumulative effects of their substance use.
Topics: co-occurring disorders, depression, prescription medications
Searching for a Substitute
If addiction really is a brain disorder based in complex adaptations to a substance, then who’s to say those adaptations won’t occur with a different drug?
Topics: addiction and the brain, kratom, maintaining sobriety, MAT, types of treatment
Anonymity Dilemma
…struggles can actually serve as a disincentive to someone who knows you and is now beginning to peer uncertainly up their own long and bumpy road of life change.
Topics: 12Step, maintaining sobriety, stigma
When It’s Just Business
I know how often the quest for business success has in the past overtaken and even overwhelmed the quest to deliver good services.
Topics: health care, program development, systems
Methadone Maintenance Plus
It’s the basic unit of most drug-free approaches. What would happen if it could be incorporated into the OTP curriculum?
Topics: MAT, opioids, program development
Is MAT Enough?
Of course with additional treatment responsibilities, a counselor couldn’t be expected to manage a caseload of up to 75.
Topics: MAT, opioids, program development, treatment models