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A doc who’s watching the clock is far less likely to expend valuable time chatting with a patient.

It’s an illness that at different times seems to respond to everything and nothing. As in ‘everything works for someone, and nothing works for everyone.’

The addicted brain is unable to accurately evaluate the situation.

This isn’t a problem a physician can deal with comfortably in the context of a 12-15 minute office visit.

Would you respond to this information with a concerted effort at self-examination and profound behavior change?

It was as if he were speaking my story- different people, same ending.

Might be that clinicians can teach patients to activate their own body’s placebo response, in order to feel better.

Does his use of pot reduce his craving for alcohol (as he claims), or is it actually helping to trigger his drinking?

It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.

I’ve never had much success explaining to a patient in the first 30 days of recovery that when Bobby smokes dope, it’s medicine, but when Liz lights up, it’s drug abuse.