Addiction

An excellent and comprehensive guide even for very experienced professionals, it also had great value for me in my own experience of recovery.

This might help to explain why even addicts who have been ‘clean’ for extended periods are unable to return to drug use without further problems.

Make specific changes that make it easier to live without tobacco. Your lifestyle should promote your physical, spiritual, and psychological well-being.

Most communities provide both options for opioid patients, and lacking a methadone for alcohol or cocaine, use a more traditional abstinence-based approach for those addictions.

It isn’t that big a challenge; you simply add a basic questionnaire on the subject to your intake paperwork.

There’s hope. Partly because the effects of repeated treatments tend to be cumulative — most patients are learning something important from each.

But to start opening those doors, someone has to be in the room — that is, they have to be identified (by themselves, preferably, but frequently by others such as the court system or family members) as possible/probable addicts.

A model generally supersedes other models not because it is perfect in every respect, but because it seems to explain certain aspects better than its predecessors.

People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they’ve always created problems for a percentage of users.