Topic: physicians
Intervention at the ER, Part 2
It isn’t that big a challenge; you simply add a basic questionnaire on the subject to your intake paperwork.
Topics: alcoholism, assessment, consequences, health care, intervention, physicians, SBIRT, signs and symptoms
Intervention at the ER? Can it Work?
If we could reach them now, the process might well be interrupted. Preventing a host of more serious problems — some of them fatal to other people, or the user himself.
Topics: assessment, health care, intervention, physicians, SBIRT, signs and symptoms
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic pt. 2
It’s glib, deceptive, self-serving and futile to address what the CDC has described as an epidemic, by finger-pointing.
Topics: health care, opioids, physicians, prescription medications
The Professional as Target: Being Manipulated
As a professional, you have an agenda to fulfill. So too does the addict. His agenda is very different, but he’s even more committed to it.
Topics: boundaries, counseling, physicians, resistance manipulation ambivalence
Why Don’t Physicians Refer People for Treatment?
A patient said he’d visited a local family clinic three times in the past year for drinking-related problems and the physician never once mentioned that he needed treatment.
Topics: assessment, clinical management, diagnosis, health care, marketing, physicians, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
