Topic: opioids

Of course with additional treatment responsibilities, a counselor couldn’t be expected to manage a caseload of up to 75.

Then word hits the street of a new product that can make you feel almost like your first time… No wonder they come running. And some never wake up.

If a life in balance is the ideal, then a broader approach has a better shot at sustainability.

Assumption: Without that reinforcement, use will simply stop on its own.

Try thinking of the interaction between drug seeker and practitioner as type of negotiation where the  two parties have very different goals.

When you’re addicted, it’s probably more correct to say that your addiction is abusing you. And will continue to do so if allowed.

There are just too many different forms of manipulation for any of us to be uniformly good at identifying them on the fly.

As we move to correct this problem, we’ll discover that millions of Americans, regular tax-paying citizens included, are already dependent on them.

One sign of vulnerability: the place tended to be too busy or too slow.

When the push to use more opioids for pain began, we kept hearing that there were 100 million chronic pain patients in the United States, most of whom were untreated (or undertreated).