Addiction

Mike Golic, a former pro football player, was asked to recall his five best-ever performances. He couldn’t. “Ask me about my five worst games,” he countered.

A key trait of the addict is a weird ability to function despite the presence of high concentrations of a drug.

As if he were proud of it — as if his list of treatment ‘failures’ represented a weird sort of achievement.

For many, because of compulsion, abstinence may turn out to be easier than re-establishing control.

The experience of addiction routinely includes periods of reduced substance use, or abstinence.

Heroin is certainly an addictive substance, so why didn’t all the subjects continue using it?

It’s the stigma that creates the distinction, not the distinction that creates the stigma.

Some observers have criticized us for orienting treatment methods to more severe cases, but that’s predominantly who we see in many forms of treatment.

There are many concepts in clinical psychology that are not science-based, but are nonetheless still of use in therapy.

Having that particular label implies– the need to make a number of important changes in lifestyle that the patient frankly doesn’t feel like making.